Xata•2w ago

summarize pagination

i'm using summarize to get unique values for a text column from my table. i've pageSize set to 10. with getPaginated i use the meta in the object returned to implement cursor based pagination. with summarize i don't have the meta in the object returned. how can i go about implementing pagination with summarize?

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cmck•7d ago

The lack of meta in this context is a limitation of summarize which can be paginated https://xata.io/docs/sdk/summarize#page but cannot be used with cursor-based pagination.

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mrcentigradeOP•7d ago

thank you. i got it. i'm struggling to get the nextPage though. do i use offset for this?

const records = await xata.db.sales.summarize({
  pagination: {
    size: 50 // return up to 50 results
    offset: 100
  }
});

const records = await xata.db.sales.summarize({
  pagination: {
    size: 50 // return up to 50 results
    offset: 100
  }
});

i'm unable to find any example.

cmck•6d ago

Unfortunately, at the moment, summarize only supports size for pagination. It does not support cursor or offset-based pagination (nextPage).

mrcentigradeOP•6d ago

oh ok. so at the moment there's no way for me to view the next page of results? 😦

cmck•6d ago

As it stands, not when using summarize but let me see if I can find a workaround.

mrcentigradeOP•6d ago

thank you. that will be really helpful. i looked at the type signatures for summarize and aggregate api responses and they both don't include meta. this makes me apprehensive in using xata for business intelligence dashboard use cases. these usually feature aggregated results and i get definitely foresee need to paginate these api results. my current use-case is more transactional so i can live with maybe pre-populating the records and use getPaginated api on it. i hope there is some way to support getPaginated to these apis like it's done for the query api. please let me know if i can put a feature request or comment on one if there is one already. 🫡

cmck•6d ago

Thanks for the detailed feedback, I'll pass it on to the team. You can also submit a feature request via https://feedback.xata.io/feature-requests I've not been able to find a means to paginate aggregate or summarize results, unfortunately, but it is something we will consider moving forward.

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mrcentigradeOP•6d ago

done 👍 thank you.

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