Pagination in nodejs with mysql

Question

In my project I need to query the db with pagination and provide user the functionality to query based on current search result. Something like limit, I am not able to find anything to use with nodejs. My backend is mysql and I am writing a rest api.

Answer 1

You could try something like that (assuming you use Express 4.x).

Use GET parameters (here page is the number of page results you want, and npp is the number of results per page).

In this example, query results are set in the results field of the response payload, while pagination metadata is set in the pagination field.

As for the possibility to query based on current search result, you would have to expand a little, because your question is a bit unclear.

var express = require('express');
var mysql   = require('mysql');
var Promise = require('bluebird');
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var app = express();

var connection = mysql.createConnection({
  host     : 'localhost',
  user     : 'myuser',
  password : 'mypassword',
  database : 'wordpress_test'
});
var queryAsync = Promise.promisify(connection.query.bind(connection));
connection.connect();

// do something when app is closing
// see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14031763/doing-a-cleanup-action-just-before-node-js-exits
process.stdin.resume()
process.on('exit', exitHandler.bind(null, { shutdownDb: true } ));

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  var numRows;
  var queryPagination;
  var numPerPage = parseInt(req.query.npp, 10) || 1;
  var page = parseInt(req.query.page, 10) || 0;
  var numPages;
  var skip = page * numPerPage;
  // Here we compute the LIMIT parameter for MySQL query
  var limit = skip + ',' + numPerPage;
  queryAsync('SELECT count(*) as numRows FROM wp_posts')
  .then(function(results) {
    numRows = results[0].numRows;
    numPages = Math.ceil(numRows / numPerPage);
    console.log('number of pages:', numPages);
  })
  .then(() => queryAsync('SELECT * FROM wp_posts ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT ' + limit))
  .then(function(results) {
    var responsePayload = {
      results: results
    };
    if (page < numPages) {
      responsePayload.pagination = {
        current: page,
        perPage: numPerPage,
        previous: page > 0 ? page - 1 : undefined,
        next: page < numPages - 1 ? page + 1 : undefined
      }
    }
    else responsePayload.pagination = {
      err: 'queried page ' + page + ' is >= to maximum page number ' + numPages
    }
    res.json(responsePayload);
  })
  .catch(function(err) {
    console.error(err);
    res.json({ err: err });
  });
});

app.listen(3000, function () {
  console.log('Example app listening on port 3000!');
});

function exitHandler(options, err) {
  if (options.shutdownDb) {
    console.log('shutdown mysql connection');
    connection.end();
  }
  if (err) console.log(err.stack);
  if (options.exit) process.exit();
}

Here is the package.json file for this example:

{
  "name": "stackoverflow-pagination",
  "dependencies": {
    "bluebird": "^3.3.3",
    "body-parser": "^1.15.0",
    "express": "^4.13.4",
    "mysql": "^2.10.2"
  }
}