Stream: implementers
Topic: Page indexing
Hacène Khemici (Jul 25 2018 at 16:45):
In a search, is there such a thing as a page 0, or do the pages start at 1?
Would I say
GET /Observation?count=10&page=0
or
GET /Observation?count=10&page=1
Thank you!
Chris Moesel (Jul 25 2018 at 17:03):
FHIR doesn't actually prescribe exactly what paged links should look like. It only prescribes a mechanism by which a server provides the client links for the first, previous, next, and last pages. Whether those use a page parameter (and whether it is 0 or 1 indexed) is completely up to the server implementation. See: http://hl7.org/fhir/2018May/http.html#paging
Chris Moesel (Jul 25 2018 at 17:04):
That said, the example in the doc seems to use a 1-based page parameter (but again, that's technically an implementation detail, not part of the spec).
Lloyd McKenzie (Jul 25 2018 at 17:17):
The URL for the next page could easily just contain a GUID. There's no expectation it'll be parseable or generatable
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