Pagination in Django-Rest-Framework using API-View

Question

I currently have an API view setup as follows:

class CartView(APIView):
    authentication_classes = [SessionAuthentication, TokenAuthentication]
    permiss         


        

Answer 1

I prefer extending the Paginator class, here is how it would look:

from rest_framework import status
from rest_framework.exceptions import NotFound as NotFoundError
from rest_framework.pagination import PageNumberPagination # Any other type works as well
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework.views import APIView

class CustomPaginator(PageNumberPagination):
    page_size = 10 # Number of objects to return in one page

    def generate_response(self, query_set, serializer_obj, request):
        try:
            page_data = self.paginate_queryset(query_set, request)
        except NotFoundError:
            return Response({"error": "No results found for the requested page"}, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)

        serialized_page = serializer_obj(page_data, many=True)
        return self.get_paginated_response(serialized_page.data)

class CartView(APIView):

    def get(self, request, format=None):
        cart_details = Cart.objects.filter(user=request.user) # or any other query
        paginator = CustomPaginator()
        response = paginator.generate_response(cart_details, CartDetailSerializer, request)
        return response