On 2 February 2010 20:58, James Marca <jma...@translab.its.uci.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:14:27AM -0800, James Marca wrote: >> Hi. >> >> First DBIx::Class is excellent and kudos all around. >> >> I have recently needed to use the paging feature for the first time >> and I'm not sure of the best way to do this. >> >> First a simple question: How should one terminate the paging? Is >> there some variable to check to find out how many pages of data are >> expected from a result set? I couldn't find anything in the docs, >> but I probably missed it. > > Clarifying my question... I am aware of the ability to call > > my $data_page_object = $rs->pager(); > my $total_count = $data_page_object->total_entries(); > > But that looks like it will hit the database once with a count(*) > select call, which in PostgreSQL is expensive. What I am hoping for > is something along the lines of > > my $paged_rs = $rs->page($nextpage); > if (! $paged_rs || ! $paged_rs->no_more_data ){ > return; > # undefined page result set means I've gone beyond the max pages > # while calling $paged_rs->first would hit the db with that > # expensive query > } > > No, I have no idea how to get that result without asking for it > explicitly from the db, but just because I can't figure that out > doesn't mean it is impossible!
Ive implemented this type of thing outside of DBIx by limiting the query to one more record than I intend to page. This works nicely as it does two things. First it gives me a flag which i can use to decide whether a page need a "show next page link", and it gives me an item that i can use to prekey the paging so it does NOT use the offset/limit form, and instead uses the id of the flag record to do an indexed search from where the next page starts. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/" _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.grokbase.com/group/dbix-class@lists.scsys.co.uk