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| author | Achilleas Pipinellis <axilleas@axilleas.me> | 2016-01-19 13:18:57 +0300 |
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| committer | Achilleas Pipinellis <axilleas@axilleas.me> | 2016-01-19 13:18:57 +0300 |
| commit | b4d61ac46babc04f67bb191c477dddc88e10ad45 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c956996de67438678ba59d5e02e3627713b2e2f /doc/api | |
| parent | 1ede975cde6d32a74b2d4d523e5c0e242c89d50d (diff) | |
| parent | 2becc6fae9b82479b644c0ca10b758cf8447bc19 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into doc_refactor_commits_api
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diff --git a/doc/api/README.md b/doc/api/README.md index 2fa177ff4dd..4d2fb582833 100644 --- a/doc/api/README.md +++ b/doc/api/README.md @@ -151,7 +151,53 @@ When listing resources you can pass the following parameters: - `page` (default: `1`) - page number - `per_page` (default: `20`, max: `100`) - number of items to list per page -[Link headers](http://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkHeader) are send back with each response. These have `rel` prev/next/first/last and contain the relevant URL. Please use these instead of generating your own URLs. +### Pagination Link header + +[Link headers](http://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkHeader) are sent back with each +response. They have `rel` set to prev/next/first/last and contain the relevant +URL. Please use these links instead of generating your own URLs. + +In the cURL example below, we limit the output to 3 items per page (`per_page=3`) +and we request the second page (`page=2`) of [comments](notes.md) of the issue +with ID `8` which belongs to the project with ID `8`: + +```bash +curl -I -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/projects/8/issues/8/notes?per_page=3&page=2 +``` + +The response will then be: + +``` +HTTP/1.1 200 OK +Cache-Control: no-cache +Content-Length: 1103 +Content-Type: application/json +Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:43:18 GMT +Link: <https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/projects/8/issues/8/notes?page=1&per_page=3>; rel="prev", <https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/projects/8/issues/8/notes?page=3&per_page=3>; rel="next", <https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/projects/8/issues/8/notes?page=1&per_page=3>; rel="first", <https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/projects/8/issues/8/notes?page=3&per_page=3>; rel="last" +Status: 200 OK +Vary: Origin +X-Next-Page: 3 +X-Page: 2 +X-Per-Page: 3 +X-Prev-Page: 1 +X-Request-Id: 732ad4ee-9870-4866-a199-a9db0cde3c86 +X-Runtime: 0.108688 +X-Total: 8 +X-Total-Pages: 3 +``` + +### Other pagination headers + +Additional pagination headers are also sent back. + +| Header | Description | +| ------ | ----------- | +| `X-Total` | The total number of items | +| `X-Total-Pages` | The total number of pages | +| `X-Per-Page` | The number of items per page | +| `X-Page` | The index of the current page (starting at 1) | +| `X-Next-Page` | The index of the next page | +| `X-Prev-Page` | The index of the previous page | ## id vs iid |