Tomaz Muraus created LIBCLOUD-453:
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Summary: Provide abstraction for data retrieval for the paginated
APIs
Key: LIBCLOUD-453
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD-453
Project: Libcloud
Issue Type: Task
Components: Core
Reporter: Tomaz Muraus
Priority: Minor
Currently, we don't have a standard abstraction for data retrieval in the
paginated APIs. This means each driver needs to implement it separately which
results in a lot of duplicated code.
There are multiple ways we can solve this problem. One of them is to add a
"PaginationMixin" class which can be reused across the APIs and provides base
functionality similar to the existing "_get_more" and "_get_data" methods.
Person implementing the driver would obviously still need to provide some
information such as transformation function, how to get the last key and how to
check if the result set has been exhausted
Here is an example of how this is currently solved in the Zerigo DNS driver -
https://github.com/apache/libcloud/blob/trunk/libcloud/dns/drivers/zerigo.py#L438
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