Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

Pagination

When a client tries to fetch a list of objects that run into pages, we have to think about how the server can manage to serve the clients with such a massive response without hampering its performance.

Pagination is a concept that helps in serving only part of the data as a response, however, with information about how to access all the data from the server, page by page, without much load and high computation for the server to serve the whole data.

Should we consider a page (of results) as a resource or just a representation of resources? Considering the page as a representation and not as a resource is what we are going to discuss in this section.

As we decided pagination is a resource representation, we will include the pagination ...