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gazetteerhk / census_explorer

Explore Hong Kong's neighborhoods through visualizations of census data

http://gazetteer.hk

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Pagination of API #32

Closed hupili closed 10 years ago

hupili commented 10 years ago

more parameters in query string:

skip
count

meta in response:

length: the total number of data points
skip: the start point of the returned list of data points
count: data points returned by this HTTP request

Pagination only matters for data.

hxu commented 10 years ago

What is the use case for pagination? In most cases, we'd want to get all the data at once, right? In theory, most of our queries should be specific enough to not return that many records.

hupili commented 10 years ago

I'm considering an interactive developer tool. One can interactively select something and get results plus rest options on the fly. Before you finalize a query, there may be many entries. It stuck my browser several times (esp. with the JSON pretty print plugin).

hxu commented 10 years ago

@hupili I whipped something quick up in b2d6f8a9e96bb43, but it doesn't show the data yet. Feel free to extend.