Paginate results

By default, the Search Service returns 25 results so, without pagination, the current interface allows you to view only the 25 Locations. To add the pagination, we need to modify the whole component stack to accept an offset parameter and to use it:

• the Symfony Controller and the routing configuration should accept an offset parameter and the search query should be built with it
• the JavaScript application should also have a route with an offset parameter
• this offset should be used in the view service when doing the AJAX request
• the server side code should generate the pagination links and the view should handle those links as the Location links in the previous step.

Symfony controller and routing configuration to accept an offset parameter

As you can see in the corresponding commit, this is a purely Symfony-related task where we have to modify the routing.yml to accept an optional parameter and the action to use it.

JavaScript application routing to accept an offset parameter

The PlatformUI application does not support route with optional parameters, so as a result we are forced to declare a new route which will accept the new parameter. To do that, we have to modify the application plugin to add a second route called  eZConfListOffset :

The new route is very similar to the existing one with the exception of its path property.

Change the view service to use the offset parameter

Depending on which route is matched, an offset parameter might be available. The matched route parameters are available in the request object stored in the request attribute of the view service. So to work with both the eZConfList route and the eZConfListOffset route, the view service has to check if an offset was passed and to use 0 as its default value if none is provided. Once that is done, it can build the URI to use to do the AJAX request. The _load method then becomes:

At this point, the interface in the browser should remain the same, but by using for instance the URL /ez#/ezconf/list/10, you check that the offset is correctly taken into account.

Pagination links

To have working pagination links, the first thing to do is to change the server side code to generate them. In the corresponding commit we also define the default limit at 10 elements. Like for the Location links, the server side code is not really able to generate a link in the JavaScript application, so we have to generate the markup with the offset as metadata so that the view can recognize and correctly handle those links. So those links get a data-offset attribute with the corresponding offset:

After, we just have to change the view code to handle a tap on the next/previous links and when this happens, we can again fire the navigateTo application level event to ask the view service to trigger the navigation but this time to the eZConfListOffset route with the given offset, this is done with:

After this change, the pagination should work as expected and you should be able to navigate through the complete list of Locations.