Looking to use pagy with Algolia, starting the page count at 0

[misham]

Hi,

Trying to figure out how to use pagy with Algolia Ruby client. Not particularly hard, here's the approach:

      @records = MyModel.search(params[:query])
      count = @records.raw_answer['nbHits']
      page = @records.raw_answer['page']
      limit = @records.raw_answer['hitsPerPage']
      @pagy = Pagy.new(count: count, page: page, limit: limit)

Except Algolia provides page number as zero-based. This causes pagy to throw an Pagy::VariableError with message of expected :page >= 1; got 0 .

I can hack it to just add 1 or subtract 1 in the code above, but wondering if there's a way to allow pagy to use zero-based count.

[ddnexus]

AFAIK the pagination business is conventionally all about pages, not page-offset, so no, there's no native support for that.

It looks like you mean that the API provides a page-offset, not a page number.... interestingly there are a few widgets for pagination that actually show the one-based page number in the UI. (https://www.algolia.com/developers/code-exchange/pagination-widget/)...

Maybe that's the official way of doing it? Maybe a pagy extra would be simple to write.

[misham]

Thanks, I figured that's the case, but wanted to ask. Good point on page offset, wasn't thinking of it that way.

Once I get a little more sleep, I'll look at adding Algolia support, a la ElasticSearch. The code looked straightforward enough.

[ddnexus]

FYI: there's also a pagy module that seems to support some minimal pagination, but it's not up-to-date.