Pagination in Search Results

In order to perform these operations, ensure that you have the proper authentication (if necessary) and user permissions.

The first argument allows you to fetch only the amount of items you specify. Let's say you only want to grab the first three results. This is how you would do it:

The Search API uses cursor-based pagination. A cursor can be defined as a pointer that is generally an encoded offset value representing a specific location in a list. GraphQL uses the concept of connections for this purpose.

Connection in GraphQL acts as a wrapper for the list of results you’re paginating. Any connection consists of two fields: edges and pageInfo. Take a look at the following query:

The query above contains the following:

• edges: contains a list of CatalogueConnectionEdge types.
• node: the object containing the information about an item which would be an item in this case.
• cursor: a string specifying the location of an item in the list.
• pageInfo: this contains fields such as hasNextPage, hasPreviousPage, endCursor, startCursor, and totalNodes.

To apply pagination to the results returned by the Search API, you will be using the after input argument, which is the cursor. The following query fetches three items from the plants folder, starting from the cursor value provided to it.