#snow-invoice-pagination
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pale carbon
snow-invoice-pagination
@alpine oxide https://stripe.com/docs/api/pagination explains this in details. You can pass a limit: 20 to only get 20 results and look at the has_more property to see if there are more results or not.
alpine oxide
The property has_more only works in one way, right ?
pale carbon
I'm confused by the "one way" wording. But yes you ask the API "hey give me 20 Invoices" and it gives you the 20 most recent and has_more: true tells you there's more after
When you paginate, based on whether you use starting_after or ending_before controls which ways you paginate and the meaning of has_more
alpine oxide
Sorry for the confusion, but yes that's what I thought. So, if it give me the 20 first invoices, and has_more is true, by default this means that there are more invoices after the last invoice. Is there any way to get has_more data before the first invoice with the same request ? Tell me if it's still not clear
pale carbon
If you pass ending_before: 'in_1234' it will tell you "there are more Invoices before that page I just retrieved so yes
alpine oxide
But if I doesn't pass ending_before: 'in_1234', I will get "there is more invoices or not, after that page. So, I can't know with the same request if there are more invoices before and after?
pale carbon
there wouldn't be any "before" since you'd get the 20 more recent Invoices already
alpine oxide
Okay, I'll explain the objective, I think you'll understand better.
I want 2 buttons
- Previous: Go to previous page
- Next": Go to next page
These two buttons must be disabled if there is no more data, respectively, before and after the current page.
I'd really like to do this in a single request if possible.
pale carbon
sure, you just cache this yourself really
If you render page 7, you got there a certain way, usually by doing next from page 1 to 7, so you know there are invoices before. If you go back to page 6 then you're going to use ending_before: in_123 where that is the most recent Invoice id on page 7. So on page 6, you know has_more: true now means "there's a page before page 6" and you remember there's a page after as you came from page 7
no way to know both ways unless you cache some of it on your end which is kind of logical
alpine oxide
Ok, that's what I wanted to know thank you!
pale carbon
sure thing!
alpine oxide
Have a nice day/evening