Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3

Implementing pagination

Pagination is another essential feature of APIs. Get operations usually return a significant number of records and information. Sometimes, it is necessary to implement pagination to avoid a large response size.

If your APIs are exposed to external clients, it is essential to reduce the response size when possible. Additionally, it could be that the client stores information in the memory of a device, such as a smartphone or an IoT device, that has limited memory.

Let's take a look at how to implement maintainable and reusable pagination in the ItemController class. First of all, we need to create a new pagination response model that represents the requested page. We can create a new PaginatedItemResponseModel.cs file ...