Django provides a few classes that help you manage paginated data – that is, data that’s split across several pages, with “Previous/Next” links.
—Django documentation

REST framework includes support for customizable pagination styles. This allows you to modify how large result sets are split into individual pages of data.

The pagination API can support either:

Pagination links that are provided as part of the content of the response.
Pagination links that are included in response headers, such asContent-Range orLink.

The built-in styles currently all use links included as part of the content of the response. This style is more accessible when using the browsable API.

Pagination is only performed automatically if you're using the generic views or viewsets. If you're using a regularAPIView, you'll need to call into the pagination API yourself to ensure you return a paginated response. See the source code for themixins.ListModelMixin andgenerics.GenericAPIView classes for an example.

Pagination can be turned off by setting the pagination class toNone.

Setting the pagination style

The pagination style may be set globally, using theDEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS andPAGE_SIZE setting keys. For example, to use the built-in limit/offset pagination, you would do something like this:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {    'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'rest_framework.pagination.LimitOffsetPagination',    'PAGE_SIZE': 100}

Note that you need to set both the pagination class, and the page size that should be used. BothDEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS andPAGE_SIZE areNone by default.

You can also set the pagination class on an individual view by using thepagination_class attribute. Typically you'll want to use the same pagination style throughout your API, although you might want to vary individual aspects of the pagination, such as default or maximum page size, on a per-view basis.

Modifying the pagination style

If you want to modify particular aspects of the pagination style, you'll want to override one of the pagination classes, and set the attributes that you want to change.

class LargeResultsSetPagination(PageNumberPagination):    page_size = 1000    page_size_query_param = 'page_size'    max_page_size = 10000class StandardResultsSetPagination(PageNumberPagination):    page_size = 100    page_size_query_param = 'page_size'    max_page_size = 1000

You can then apply your new style to a view using thepagination_class attribute:

class BillingRecordsView(generics.ListAPIView):    queryset = Billing.objects.all()    serializer_class = BillingRecordsSerializer    pagination_class = LargeResultsSetPagination

Or apply the style globally, using theDEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS settings key. For example:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {    'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'apps.core.pagination.StandardResultsSetPagination'}

API Reference

PageNumberPagination

This pagination style accepts a single number page number in the request query parameters.

Request:

GET https://api.example.org/accounts/?page=4

Response:

HTTP 200 OK{    "count": 1023,    "next": "https://api.example.org/accounts/?page=5",    "previous": "https://api.example.org/accounts/?page=3",    "results": [       …    ]}

Setup

To enable thePageNumberPagination style globally, use the following configuration, and set thePAGE_SIZE as desired:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {    'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'rest_framework.pagination.PageNumberPagination',    'PAGE_SIZE': 100}

OnGenericAPIView subclasses you may also set thepagination_class attribute to selectPageNumberPagination on a per-view basis.

Configuration

ThePageNumberPagination class includes a number of attributes that may be overridden to modify the pagination style.

To set these attributes you should override thePageNumberPagination class, and then enable your custom pagination class as above.

django_paginator_class - The Django Paginator class to use. Default isdjango.core.paginator.Paginator, which should be fine for most use cases.
page_size - A numeric value indicating the page size. If set, this overrides thePAGE_SIZE setting. Defaults to the same value as thePAGE_SIZE settings key.
page_query_param - A string value indicating the name of the query parameter to use for the pagination control.
page_size_query_param - If set, this is a string value indicating the name of a query parameter that allows the client to set the page size on a per-request basis. Defaults toNone, indicating that the client may not control the requested page size.
max_page_size - If set, this is a numeric value indicating the maximum allowable requested page size. This attribute is only valid ifpage_size_query_param is also set.
last_page_strings - A list or tuple of string values indicating values that may be used with thepage_query_param to request the final page in the set. Defaults to('last',). For example, use?page=last to go directly to the last page.
template - The name of a template to use when rendering pagination controls in the browsable API. May be overridden to modify the rendering style, or set toNone to disable HTML pagination controls completely. Defaults to"rest_framework/pagination/numbers.html".

LimitOffsetPagination

This pagination style mirrors the syntax used when looking up multiple database records. The client includes both a "limit" and an"offset" query parameter. The limit indicates the maximum number of items to return, and is equivalent to thepage_size in other styles. The offset indicates the starting position of the query in relation to the complete set of unpaginated items.

Request:

GET https://api.example.org/accounts/?limit=100&offset=400

Response:

HTTP 200 OK{    "count": 1023,    "next": "https://api.example.org/accounts/?limit=100&offset=500",    "previous": "https://api.example.org/accounts/?limit=100&offset=300",    "results": [       …    ]}

Setup

To enable theLimitOffsetPagination style globally, use the following configuration:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {    'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'rest_framework.pagination.LimitOffsetPagination'}

Optionally, you may also set aPAGE_SIZE key. If thePAGE_SIZE parameter is also used then thelimit query parameter will be optional, and may be omitted by the client.

OnGenericAPIView subclasses you may also set thepagination_class attribute to selectLimitOffsetPagination on a per-view basis.

Configuration

TheLimitOffsetPagination class includes a number of attributes that may be overridden to modify the pagination style.

To set these attributes you should override theLimitOffsetPagination class, and then enable your custom pagination class as above.

default_limit - A numeric value indicating the limit to use if one is not provided by the client in a query parameter. Defaults to the same value as thePAGE_SIZE settings key.
limit_query_param - A string value indicating the name of the "limit" query parameter. Defaults to'limit'.
offset_query_param - A string value indicating the name of the "offset" query parameter. Defaults to'offset'.
max_limit - If set this is a numeric value indicating the maximum allowable limit that may be requested by the client. Defaults toNone.
template - The name of a template to use when rendering pagination controls in the browsable API. May be overridden to modify the rendering style, or set toNone to disable HTML pagination controls completely. Defaults to"rest_framework/pagination/numbers.html".

CursorPagination

The cursor-based pagination presents an opaque "cursor" indicator that the client may use to page through the result set. This pagination style only presents forward and reverse controls, and does not allow the client to navigate to arbitrary positions.

Cursor based pagination requires that there is a unique, unchanging ordering of items in the result set. This ordering might typically be a creation timestamp on the records, as this presents a consistent ordering to paginate against.

Cursor based pagination is more complex than other schemes. It also requires that the result set presents a fixed ordering, and does not allow the client to arbitrarily index into the result set. However it does provide the following benefits:

Provides a consistent pagination view. When used properlyCursorPagination ensures that the client will never see the same item twice when paging through records, even when new items are being inserted by other clients during the pagination process.
Supports usage with very large datasets. With extremely large datasets pagination using offset-based pagination styles may become inefficient or unusable. Cursor based pagination schemes instead have fixed-time properties, and do not slow down as the dataset size increases.

Details and limitations

Proper use of cursor based pagination requires a little attention to detail. You'll need to think about what ordering you want the scheme to be applied against. The default is to order by"-created". This assumes thatthere must be a 'created' timestamp field on the model instances, and will present a "timeline" style paginated view, with the most recently added items first.

You can modify the ordering by overriding the'ordering' attribute on the pagination class, or by using theOrderingFilter filter class together withCursorPagination. When used withOrderingFilter you should strongly consider restricting the fields that the user may order by.

Proper usage of cursor pagination should have an ordering field that satisfies the following:

Should be an unchanging value, such as a timestamp, slug, or other field that is only set once, on creation.
Should be unique, or nearly unique. Millisecond precision timestamps are a good example. This implementation of cursor pagination uses a smart "position plus offset" style that allows it to properly support not-strictly-unique values as the ordering.
Should be a non-nullable value that can be coerced to a string.
Should not be a float. Precision errors easily lead to incorrect results. Hint: use decimals instead. (If you already have a float field and must paginate on that, anexampleCursorPagination subclass that uses decimals to limit precision is available here.)
The field should have a database index.

Using an ordering field that does not satisfy these constraints will generally still work, but you'll be losing some of the benefits of cursor pagination.

For more technical details on the implementation we use for cursor pagination, the"Building cursors for the Disqus API" blog post gives a good overview of the basic approach.

Setup

To enable theCursorPagination style globally, use the following configuration, modifying thePAGE_SIZE as desired:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {    'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'rest_framework.pagination.CursorPagination',    'PAGE_SIZE': 100}

OnGenericAPIView subclasses you may also set thepagination_class attribute to selectCursorPagination on a per-view basis.

Configuration

TheCursorPagination class includes a number of attributes that may be overridden to modify the pagination style.

To set these attributes you should override theCursorPagination class, and then enable your custom pagination class as above.

page_size = A numeric value indicating the page size. If set, this overrides thePAGE_SIZE setting. Defaults to the same value as thePAGE_SIZE settings key.
cursor_query_param = A string value indicating the name of the "cursor" query parameter. Defaults to'cursor'.
ordering = This should be a string, or list of strings, indicating the field against which the cursor based pagination will be applied. For example:ordering = 'slug'. Defaults to-created. This value may also be overridden by usingOrderingFilter on the view.
template = The name of a template to use when rendering pagination controls in the browsable API. May be overridden to modify the rendering style, or set toNone to disable HTML pagination controls completely. Defaults to"rest_framework/pagination/previous_and_next.html".

Custom pagination styles

To create a custom pagination serializer class, you should inherit the subclasspagination.BasePagination, override thepaginate_queryset(self, queryset, request, view=None), andget_paginated_response(self, data) methods:

Thepaginate_queryset method is passed to the initial queryset and should return an iterable object. That object contains only the data in the requested page.
Theget_paginated_response method is passed to the serialized page data and should return aResponse instance.

Note that thepaginate_queryset method may set state on the pagination instance, that may later be used by theget_paginated_response method.

Example

Suppose we want to replace the default pagination output style with a modified format that includes the next and previous links under in a nested 'links' key. We could specify a custom pagination class like so:

class CustomPagination(pagination.PageNumberPagination):    def get_paginated_response(self, data):        return Response({            'links': {                'next': self.get_next_link(),                'previous': self.get_previous_link()            },            'count': self.page.paginator.count,            'results': data        })

We'd then need to set up the custom class in our configuration:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {    'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'my_project.apps.core.pagination.CustomPagination',    'PAGE_SIZE': 100}

Note that if you care about how the ordering of keys is displayed in responses in the browsable API you might choose to use anOrderedDict when constructing the body of paginated responses, but this is optional.

Using your custom pagination class

To have your custom pagination class be used by default, use theDEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS setting:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {    'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'my_project.apps.core.pagination.LinkHeaderPagination',    'PAGE_SIZE': 100}

API responses for list endpoints will now include aLink header, instead of including the pagination links as part of the body of the response, for example:

Link Header

A custom pagination style, using the 'Link' header

HTML pagination controls

By default using the pagination classes will cause HTML pagination controls to be displayed in the browsable API. There are two built-in display styles. ThePageNumberPagination andLimitOffsetPagination classes display a list of page numbers with previous and next controls. TheCursorPagination class displays a simpler style that only displays a previous and next control.

Customizing the controls

You can override the templates that render the HTML pagination controls. The two built-in styles are:

rest_framework/pagination/numbers.html
rest_framework/pagination/previous_and_next.html

Providing a template with either of these paths in a global template directory will override the default rendering for the relevant pagination classes.

Alternatively you can disable HTML pagination controls completely by subclassing on of the existing classes, settingtemplate = None as an attribute on the class. You'll then need to configure yourDEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS settings key to use your custom class as the default pagination style.

Low-level API

The low-level API for determining if a pagination class should display the controls or not is exposed as adisplay_page_controls attribute on the pagination instance. Custom pagination classes should be set toTrue in thepaginate_queryset method if they require the HTML pagination controls to be displayed.

The.to_html() and.get_html_context() methods may also be overridden in a custom pagination class in order to further customize how the controls are rendered.

Third party packages

The following third party packages are also available.

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Pagination

Setting the pagination style

Modifying the pagination style

API Reference

PageNumberPagination

Setup

Configuration

LimitOffsetPagination

Setup

Configuration

CursorPagination

Details and limitations

Setup

Configuration

Custom pagination styles

Example

Using your custom pagination class

HTML pagination controls

Customizing the controls

Low-level API

Third party packages

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drf-proxy-pagination

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