How do I set continuation tokens for Cosmos DB queries sent by document_client objects in Python?

Question

I have an API that retrieves documents based on keywords that appear in document fields. I would like to paginate results so that I can return documents to a client sending a re

Answer 1

It turns out that the query results needed to be handled from the results object itself, and the method _fetch_function(options) should be called:

q = client.QueryDocuments(collection_link, query, {'maxItemCount':10})
results_1 = q._fetch_function({'maxItemCount':10})
#this is a string representing a JSON object
token = results_1[1]['x-ms-continuation']
results_2 = q._fetch_function({'maxItemCount':10,'continuation':token})

The data is contained in results_[n][0] and header information returned from the call is returned in results_[n][1].