Re: Call for consensus for the pagination design (ISSUE-42)

Gregg Kellogg
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> On Oct 18, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> It looks like the latest pagination design [1] stroke the right balance and
> finally allows us to move past this contentious issue. Briefly summarized,
> the main issues of the currently specified pagination design is that the
> collection and their pages are conflated which yields to a number of
> problems in practice. This has been tracked as ISSUE-42 [2].
> 
> The proposed solution for that issue is to look at pages of a collection as
> specific *views* on a single underlying collection instead of thinking of
> the collection as the sum of its pages. More concretely, the proposal is to
> - replace PagedCollection with PartialCollectionView
> - replace firstPage/nextPage/previousPage/lastPage with
> first/next/previous/last
> - associate totalItems with Collection instead of PagedCollection
> - remove itemsPerPage for the time being (we will likely re-introduce it
> with a different name)
> 
> The representation of a specific view on a collection would look somewhat
> like this with the new proposed design:
> 
>  {
>    "@id": "http://api.example.com/an-issue/comments",
>    "@type": "Collection",
>    "member": [ ... ],
>    "totalItems": 150,
>    "view": {
>      "@id": "/an-issue/comments?page=3",
>      "@type": "PartialCollectionView",
>      "first": "/an-issue/comments",
>      "previous": "/an-issue/comments?page=2",
>      "next": "/an-issue/comments?page=4",
>      "last": "/an-issue/comments?page=498",
>    }
>  }
> 
> 
> This serves as a call for consensus. Before I proceed with marking ISSUE-42
> [2] as resolved and implementing the changes in the spec, I would like to
> ask if anyone has any concerns or objections against this proposal.
> 
> Please submit your comments by Saturday, October 24th.

+1

Gregg

> Thanks,
> Markus
> 
> 
> [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-hydra/2015Oct/0121.html
> [2] https://github.com/HydraCG/Specifications/issues/42
> 
> 
> --
> Markus Lanthaler
> @markuslanthaler
> 
>

Received on Monday, 19 October 2015 03:22:46 UTC