Been playing around with the (Single Page App) BigShelf sample. I found really interesting is the GetBooksForSearch method (/api/BigShelf/GetBooksForSearch) that it takes additional $filter, $inlinecount, $top, $skip parameters for paging and filtering results, which are not present in the controller code:
public IQueryable<Book> GetBooksForSearch
(string profileIds, Sort sort, bool sortAscending)
I coudln't find any documents about how that Controller translate and filter the result afterwards and more importantly, how to configure such behavior (e.g., limit the max result), anyone have a clue?
-- Updated --
Found out that MVC Web API is doing the trick. But how can we configure it?
There's an action filter attribute called ResultLimitAttribute which you can use on any action method which returns IQueryable<T> or even IEnumerable<T> to limit the amount of data returned.
[ResultLimit(100)]
public IQueryable<Product> Get() {
// ...
}