[Pulp-list] pagination design
Jay Dobies
jason.dobies at redhat.com
Fri Mar 11 20:51:04 UTC 2011
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On 03/11/2011 03:04 PM, Jason L Connor wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 14:47 -0500, Jay Dobies wrote:
>> Looks good. One question on deferred fields. Is that basically a way
>> of
>> limiting what data comes back per thing requested? Can you show an
>> example of what that looks like? There are examples for the start and
>> max (which look good) but I'm curious to see how the deferred fields
>> would look.
>>
>
> Thank you. A deferred fields request would look something like this:
>
> GET /repositories/<some id>/packages/?start=x&max=y
>
> This request would get a range of the package ids associated with the
> repository <some id>
>
> So very similar to the GET request on a collection.
So in essence, it's just omitting large sets of data from paginated
objects and retrieving them through other queries? I was
misinterpretting, I was thinking of the idea of specifying at query time
what fields you wanted returned. This makes sense, thanks for the
clarification.
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Jay Dobies
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