Paging in a Rest Collection

Question

I\'m interested in exposing a direct REST interface to collections of JSON documents (think CouchDB or Persevere). The problem I\'m running into is how to handle the G

Answer 1

You can detect the Range header, and mimic Dojo if it is present, and mimic Atom if it is not. It seems to me that this neatly divides the use cases. If you are responding to a REST query from your application, you expect it to be formatted with a Range header. If you are responding to a casual browser, then if you return paging links it will let the tool provide an easy way to explore the collection.