如何在graphql的API平台中使用基于页面的分页

Question

I want to be able to paginate with https://api-platform.com/ and the graphql support.

I enabled pagination and I only can use those params :

first: Int Returns the first n elements from the list.

last: Int Returns the last n elements from the list.

before: String Returns the elements in the list that come before the specified cursor.

after: String Returns the elements in the list that come after the specified cursor.

The thing is that with those params I cannot access to a page 5 from the first page for example. For that I would need to know the cursor of the last element of the 4th page.

Do I missunderstand the possibilities of that system ?

Is there a way to use a param such as offset with which I could easily start after the N first elements ?

Answer 1

No you cannot apply the same page-based behavior for a cursor-based pagination. The concept of "page" doesn't exist so it makes no sense to ask for a specific page.

However, in the master version of API Platform (no release yet), you can enable a page-based pagination for GraphQL.

The documentation is here: https://api-platform.com/docs/master/core/graphql/#using-the-page-based-pagination .