Tuesday, March 6, 2018

REST Paging Support by Oracle Offline Persistence in JET

Oracle Offline Persistence query handler - Oracle Rest Query Handler supports pagination for Oracle ADF BC REST service out of the box. Check my previous post to see how querying works through offline persistence toolkit for ADF BC REST service - Shredding and Querying with Oracle Offline Persistence in JET.

Pagination is a must for large REST resources, its great that Oracle offline persistence toolkit supports it. Let's see it in action.

I navigate through the data with left/right arrows, this triggers REST call with pagination parameters - limit and offset. These are standard parameters supported by ADF BC REST. Requests are executed online:


All pages of data are cached by offline toolkit, if while offline we try to access previously cached page by executing REST request with paging parameters - we will get data from offline toolkit. Now I switch offline and try to navigate to the one of cached pages - data is retrieved from cache automatically:


If I navigate to the page, which was not cached (meaning - not accessed while online) - no results returned. In such situation I can navigate back (paging parameters will be updated) and cached data will be displayed for the page which was cached:


Paging navigation control buttons are calling JS functions to update startIndex:


Sample application is using JET Collection API to execute fetch requests. Collection is extended with getURL function which sets limit and offset parameters to execute paging request:


Once again, make sure to use Oracle Rest Query Handler in offline persistence toolkit configuration:


Fetch function is called through JET Collection API. Start index value is calculated dynamically - this allows to execute paging requests. Same function works online and offline, no need to worry about connection status, all online/offline logic is handled by persistence toolkit:


Sample application for this post is available on GitHub.

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