Getting a count of returns seen by a RESTful request

Question

So, I\'d like to know how many results I\'ll be getting back from a RESTful uri GET request. I don\'t know of any way to do that at this point. Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

Why don't you make your resource handle queries for that type of metadata? Suppose that

GET /items

returns your list of items like this:

  
  
  ...

Then something like:

GET /items?info

could return an empty list like this:

or possibly a generic info document like this:

You could also implement an "info" resource like this:

GET /info?items&users

which might return: