On Sep 12, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:
> For pagination you can use the skip parameter instead of trying to change
> the startkey for each pagination.
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_view_API#Querying_Options
>
> ?startkey="foo"&limit=10
> ?startkey="foo"&limit=10&skip=10
> ?startkey="foo"&limit=10&skip=20
>
You can but you shouldn't.
The right way to do it is to use startkey and limit, as documented here.
http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/recipes.html#fast
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Henrik Skupin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For my current Couch application I'm using pagination to show only 50
>> results per page. To navigate back and forward the endkey vs. startkey
>> parameters are used. While startkey in combination with limit is working
>> fine, endkey doesn't return results for [offset(endkey)-limit,
>> offset(endkey)] but for [0, limit]. This makes pagination impossible for me
>> and looks like to be a bug. An example you can find here:
>>
>> http://mozmill.hskupin.info/general/reports
>>
>> After opening the page click 'Next' twice and check the URL of the
>> 'Previous' link before clicking on it. The endkey parameter will not be
>> obeyed and a click on that link causes the first page to be opened.
>>
>> The code can be found at: http://github.com/whimboo/mozmill-dashboard
>>
>> Is the above problem a known broken behavior and worth filing a bug?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Henrik
>>
