How to do pagination using range queries in MongoDB?

Question

I\'m probably missing something since I\'m still learning the ins and outs of MongoDB, but I need help with paging a collection.

I have a collection that has a lis

Answer 1

You just need to call skip on the cursor

see MongoDB documentation on cursor skip "This approach may be useful in implementing “paged” results".

This example is taken from Mongodb's example

function printStudents(pageNumber, nPerPage) {
   print("Page: " + pageNumber);
   db.students.find().skip((pageNumber-1)*nPerPage).limit(nPerPage).forEach( function(student) { print(student.name + "
"); } );
}