API Pagination

nwillc
2 min readFeb 22, 2022
Photo by Olga Tutunaru on Unsplash

API results pagination is a bit of a trigger issue for me. It’s such an easy concept to conceptualize but is literally an exercise in edge cases. Part of the problem is the name itself, pagination, which evokes the image of advancing, sheet by sheet, through a printed document. What could be easier? Flip a page to move forward, flip a page to move back. Easy peasy. Accept that’s almost never what API pagination is, it’s usually a flexibly defined cursor moving…

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nwillc

Graybeard code monkey, started on an Apple IIe, got a CS degree in the 80’s, and coded my way through C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Kotlin — and now Go.