NAME Dancer::Plugin::Paginate - HTTP 1.1 Range-based Pagination for Dancer apps. VERSION Version 1.0.1 DESCRIPTION HTTP 1.1 Range-based Pagination for Dancer apps. Provides a simple wrapper to provide pagination of results via the HTTP 1.1 Range headers for AJAX requests. SYNOPSIS To use, simply add the "paginate" keyword to any route that should support HTTP Range headers. The HTTP Request will be processed and Dancer session variables will be populated with the items being requested. use Dancer::Plugin::Paginate; get '/data' => paginate sub { ... } ... Configuration Options Ajax-Only Options: *true|false* Default: true Determines if paginate should only operate on Ajax requests. Mode Options: *headers|parameters|both* Default: headers Controls if paginate will look for the pagination in the headers, parameters, or both. If set to both, headers will be preferred. Headers Mode Header mode will look for the following 2 Headers: Content-Range Range-Unit Both are required. You can read more about these at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt and http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-latest.html . Range-Unit will be returned to your app, but is not validated in any way. Parameters mode Parameters mode will look the following parameters in any of Dancer's parameter sources (query, route, or body): Start End Range-Unit Start and End are required. Range-Unit will be populated with an empty string if not available. Keywords paginate The paginate keyword is used to add a pagination processing to a route. It will: Check if the request is AJAX (and stop processing if set to ajax-only). Extract the data from Headers, Parameters, or Both. Store these in Dancer Session Variables (defined below). Run the provided coderef for the route. Add proper headers and change status to 206 if coderef was successful. Vars: range_available - Boolean. Will return true if range was found. range - An arrayref of [start, end]. range_unit - The Range Unit provided in the request. In your response, you an optionally provide the following Dancer Session Variables to customize response: total - The total count of items. Will return '*' if not provided. return_range - An arrayref of provided [start, end] values in your response. Original will be reused if not provided. return_range_unit - The unit of the range in your response. Original will be reused if not provided. AUTHOR Colin Ewen, `' BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to `bug-dancer-plugin-paginate at rt.cpan.org', or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Dancer-Plugin-Paginate. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. SUPPORT You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Dancer::Plugin::Paginate This is developed on GitHub - please feel free to raise issues or pull requests against the repo at: https://github.com/Casao/Dancer-Plugin-Paginate. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My thanks to David Precious, `' for his Dancer::Plugin::Auth::Extensible framework, which provided the Keyword syntax used by this module. Parts were also used for testing purposes. LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright 2014 Colin Ewen. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at: http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0 Any use, modification, and distribution of the Standard or Modified Versions is governed by this Artistic License. By using, modifying or distributing the Package, you accept this license. Do not use, modify, or distribute the Package, if you do not accept this license. 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