What’s the best RESTful method to return total number of items in an object?

Question

I’m developing a REST API service for a large social networking website I’m involved in. So far, it’s working great. I can issue GET, POST, P

Answer 1

I would recommend adding headers for the same, like:

HTTP/1.1 200

Pagination-Count: 100
Pagination-Page: 5
Pagination-Limit: 20
Content-Type: application/json

[
  {
    "id": 10,
    "name": "shirt",
    "color": "red",
    "price": "$23"
  },
  {
    "id": 11,
    "name": "shirt",
    "color": "blue",
    "price": "$25"
  }
]

For details refer to:

https://github.com/adnan-kamili/rest-api-response-format

For swagger file:

https://github.com/adnan-kamili/swagger-response-template