Django Rest Framework Paging - django

Question

I am attempting to make my API get return a maximum of 10 per page. This helps me with infinite loading. The API url will be I am trying looks like this:
www.mysite.com/api/test/?user=5&page=1
However, this does not work.
I've followed the official docs here without success.
I have only modified two files, settings.py & rest_views.py.
settings.py-
REST_FRAMEWORK = {
'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'rest_framework.pagination.LimitOffsetPagination'
}
rest_views.py-
from django.core.paginator import Paginator
...
wardrobematch = {
'user': lambda x: ('user__pk', x)
}
class WardrobeListView(APIView):
renderer_classes = (JSONRenderer, )
paginate_by = 10
paginate_by_param = 'page_size'
max_paginate_by = 100
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
filters = {}
for key, value in request.GET.items():
key = key.lower()
if key in wardrobematch:
lookup, val = wardrobematch[key](value.lower())
filters[lookup] = val
qset = (
Analytic.objects
.filter(like=True,**filters)
.order_by('-updated',)
# .distinct('product_id',)
.values('product_id', 'product__name', 'product__brand', 'product__store__store_name', 'product__variation__image__image', 'product__variation__price__price',)
)
return Response(qset)

Answer 1

When using regular ApiView, you should call the pagination API yourself, it will not perform pagination automatically.
I have created a pagination and a serializer mixim. I'm not sure it is best method, but it worked for me.
class SerializerMixim(object):
def serialize_object(self,obj):
"""Serilize only needed fields"""
return NotImplementedError
class PaginationMixim(object):
_serializer = None
def paginate(self,queryset,num=10):
page = self.request.GET.get('page')
paginator = Paginator(queryset, num)
try:
queryset = paginator.page(page)
except PageNotAnInteger:
queryset = paginator.page(1)
except EmptyPage:
queryset = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)
count = paginator.count
previous = None if not queryset.has_previous() else queryset.previous_page_number()
next = None if not queryset.has_next() else queryset.next_page_number()
if self._serializer:
objects = self._serializer(queryset.object_list,many=True).data
else:
objects = [self.serialize_object(i) for i in queryset.object_list]
data = {'count':count,'previous':previous,
'next':next,'object_list':objects}
return Response(data)
def serialize_object(self,obj):
return {'id':obj.pk}
class WardrobeListView(APIView,PaginationMixim,SerializerMixim):
renderer_classes = (JSONRenderer, )
#_serializer = AnalyticSerializer
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
filters = {}
for key, value in request.GET.items():
key = key.lower()
if key in wardrobematch:
lookup, val = wardrobematch[key](value.lower())
filters[lookup] = val
qset = (
Analytic.objects
.filter(like=True,**filters)
.order_by('-updated',)
# .distinct('product_id',)
return self.paginate(qset)
def serialize_object(self,obj):
return obj.serilized
then you need to create a propery for Analytic model like,
class Analytic(models.Model):
.....
#property
def serilized(self):
summary = {
'id':self.product.id,
'image':self.product.name,
.......
}
return summary
this will also work with django rest serializers

Answer 2

I got your first example working- to me it was clearer and more basic. All I did was add ".object_list" to stop the "is not JSON serializable" error.
This is your answer with my tiny tweak:
class WardrobeListView(APIView):
renderer_classes = (JSONRenderer, )
def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
filters = {}
for key, value in request.GET.items():
key = key.lower()
if key in wardrobematch:
lookup, val = wardrobematch[key](value.lower())
filters[lookup] = val
qset = (
Analytic.objects
.filter(like=True,**filters)
.order_by('-updated',)
# .distinct('product_id',)
.values('product_id', 'product__name', 'product__brand', 'product__store__store_name', 'product__variation__image__image', 'product__variation__price__price',)
)
paginator = Paginator(qset, 2) # Show 25 items per page
page = request.GET.get('page')
try:
qset = paginator.page(page)
except PageNotAnInteger:
# If page is not an integer, deliver first page.
qset = paginator.page(1)
except EmptyPage:
# If page is out of range (e.g. 9999), deliver last page of results.
qset = paginator.page(paginator.num_pages)
return Response(qset.object_list)