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What is pagination? | ||
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This module helps dividing large lists of items into pages. The user | ||
is shown one page at a time and can navigate to other pages. Imagine you | ||
are offering a company phonebook and let the user search the entries. If | ||
the search result contains 23 entries but you may want to display no | ||
more than 10 entries at once. The first page contains entries 1-10, the | ||
second 11-20 and the third 21-23. See the documentation of the "Page" | ||
class for more information. | ||
This module helps dividing large lists of items into pages. The user is shown one page at a time and | ||
can navigate to other pages. Imagine you are offering a company phonebook and let the user search | ||
the entries. If the search result contains 23 entries but you may want to display no more than 10 | ||
entries at once. The first page contains entries 1-10, the second 11-20 and the third 21-23. See the | ||
documentation of the "Page" class for more information. | ||
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How do I use this module? | ||
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The paginate module contains extensive in-line documentation with examples. | ||
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Concerning WebHelpers | ||
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This is a standalone module. Former versions were included in the WebHelpers | ||
Python module as webhelpers.paginate and were tightly coupled with the | ||
WebHelpers and the Pylons web framework. This version aims to be useful | ||
independent of any web framework. | ||
This is a standalone module. Former versions were included in the WebHelpers Python module as | ||
webhelpers.paginate and were tightly coupled with the WebHelpers and the Pylons web framework. This | ||
version aims to be useful independent of any web framework. | ||
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Subclassing Page() | ||
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This module supports pagination through list-like objects. To paginate though | ||
other types of objects you can subclass the paginate.Page() class and provide | ||
a wrapper class that defines how to access elements of the collection. | ||
This module supports pagination through list-like objects. To paginate though other types of objects | ||
you can subclass the paginate.Page() class and provide a wrapper class that defines how to access | ||
elements of that special collection. | ||
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You can find examples in other paginate_* modules like paginate_sqlalchemy. | ||
You would have to provide a class that implements the __init__, __getitem__ and | ||
__len__ methods. Example: | ||
You can find examples in other paginate_* modules like paginate_sqlalchemy. Basically you would have | ||
to provide a class that implements the __init__, __getitem__ and __len__ methods. | ||
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class SqlalchemyOrmWrapper(object): | ||
"""Wrapper class to access elements of a collection.""" | ||
def __init__(self, obj): | ||
self.obj = obj | ||
Example:: | ||
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def __getitem__(self, range): | ||
# Return a range of objects of an sqlalchemy.orm.query.Query object | ||
return self.obj[range] | ||
class SqlalchemyOrmWrapper(object): | ||
"""Wrapper class to access elements of a collection.""" | ||
def __init__(self, obj): | ||
self.obj = obj | ||
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def __len__(self): | ||
# Count the number of objects in an sqlalchemy.orm.query.Query object | ||
return self.obj.count() | ||
def __getitem__(self, range): | ||
# Return a range of objects of an sqlalchemy.orm.query.Query object | ||
return self.obj[range] | ||
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Then you can create your own Page class that uses the above wrapper class: | ||
def __len__(self): | ||
# Count the number of objects in an sqlalchemy.orm.query.Query object | ||
return self.obj.count() | ||
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class SqlalchemyOrmPage(paginate.Page): | ||
"""A pagination page that deals with SQLAlchemy ORM objects.""" | ||
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): | ||
super(SqlalchemyOrmPage, self).__init__(*args, wrapper_class=SqlalchemyOrmWrapper, **kwargs) | ||
Then you can create your own Page class that uses the above wrapper class:: | ||
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class SqlalchemyOrmPage(paginate.Page): | ||
"""A pagination page that deals with SQLAlchemy ORM objects.""" | ||
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): | ||
super(SqlalchemyOrmPage, self).__init__(*args, wrapper_class=SqlalchemyOrmWrapper, **kwargs) | ||
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As you can see it does not do much. It just calls paginate.Page.__init__ and adds | ||
wrapper_class=SqlalchemyOrmWrapper as an argument. The paginate.Page instance will | ||
use that that wrapper class to access the elements. | ||
As you can see it does not do much. It basically calls paginate.Page.__init__ and adds | ||
wrapper_class=SqlalchemyOrmWrapper as an argument. The paginate.Page instance will use that wrapper | ||
class to access the elements. | ||
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