21 Pagination
This chapter covers
- How pagination allows users to consume large data sets in bite-sized chunks
- The specific size of each page of data
- How API services should indicate that paging is complete
- How to define the page token format
- How to page across large chunks of data inside a single resource
In this pattern, we’ll explore how to consume data when the number of resources or the size of a single resource is simply too large for a single API response. Rather than expecting all of the data in a single response interface, we’ll enter a back-and-forth sequence whereby we request a small chunk of data at a time, iterating until there is no more data to consume. This functionality is commonly seen in many web interfaces, where we go ...
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