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issue2551328/issue2551264 unneeded next link and total_count incorrect
Fix: issue2551328 - REST results show next link if number of
results is a multiple of page size. (Found by members of
team 3 in the UMass-Boston CS682 Spring 2024 class.)
issue2551264 - REST X-Total-Count header and @total_size
count incorrect when paginated
These issues arose because we retrieved the exact number of rows
from the database as requested by the user using the @page_size
parameter. With this changeset, we retrieve up to 10 million + 1
rows from the database. If the total number of rows exceeds 10
million, we set the total_count indicators to -1 as an invalid
size. (The max number of requested rows (default 10 million +1)
can be modified by the admin through interfaces.py.)
By retrieving more data than necessary, we can calculate the
total count by adding @page_index*@page_size to the number of
rows returned by the query.
Furthermore, since we return more than @page_size rows, we can
determine the existence of a row at @page_size+1 and use that
information to determine if a next link should be
provided. Previously, a next link was returned if @page_size rows
were retrieved.
This change does not guarantee that the user will get @page_size
rows returned. Access policy filtering occurs after the rows are
returned, and discards rows inaccessible by the user.
Using the current @page_index/@page_size it would be difficult to
have the roundup code refetch data and make sure that a full
@page_size set of rows is returned. E.G. @page_size=100 and 5 of
them are dropped due to access restrictions. We then fetch 10
items and add items 1-4 and 6 (5 is inaccessible). There is no
way to calculate the new database offset at:
@page_index*@page_size + 6 from the URL. We would need to add an
@page_offset=6 or something.
This could work since the client isn't adding 1 to @page_index to
get the next page. Thanks to HATEOAS, the client just uses the
'next' url. But I am not going to cross that bridge without a
concrete use case.
This can also be handled client side by merging a short response
with the next response and re-paginating client side.
Also added extra index markers to the docs to highlight use of
interfaces.py.
| author | John Rouillard <rouilj@ieee.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:57:16 -0400 |
| parents | 778a9f455067 |
| children | 9c3ec0a5c7fc |
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# # Copyright (C) 2020 John Rouillard # All rights reserved. # For license terms see the file COPYING.txt. # from __future__ import print_function import unittest, os, shutil, errno, sys, difflib from roundup import instance from roundup.instance import TrackerError try: # python2 import pathlib2 as pathlib except ImportError: # python3 import pathlib from . import db_test_base class InstanceTest(unittest.TestCase): backend = 'anydbm' def setUp(self): self.dirname = '_test_instance' # set up and open a tracker self.instance = db_test_base.setupTracker(self.dirname, self.backend) # open the database self.db = self.instance.open('admin') self.db.commit() self.db.close() def tearDown(self): if self.db: self.db.close() try: shutil.rmtree(self.dirname) except OSError as error: if error.errno not in (errno.ENOENT, errno.ESRCH): raise def testOpenOldStyle(self): pathlib.Path(os.path.join(self.dirname, "dbinit.py")).touch() # no longer support old style tracker configs self.assertRaises(TrackerError, instance.open, self.dirname)
