from math import ceil class InvalidPage(Exception): pass class ObjectPaginator(object): """ This class makes pagination easy. Feed it a QuerySet, plus the number of objects you want on each page. Then read the hits and pages properties to see how many pages it involves. Call get_page with a page number (starting at 0) to get back a list of objects for that page. Finally, check if a page number has a next/prev page using has_next_page(page_number) and has_previous_page(page_number). """ def __init__(self, query_set, num_per_page): self.query_set = query_set self.num_per_page = num_per_page self._hits, self._pages = None, None self._has_next = {} # Caches page_number -> has_next_boolean def get_page(self, page_number): try: page_number = int(page_number) except ValueError: raise InvalidPage if page_number < 0: raise InvalidPage # Retrieve one extra record, and check for the existence of that extra # record to determine whether there's a next page. limit = self.num_per_page + 1 offset = page_number * self.num_per_page object_list = list(self.query_set[offset:offset+limit]) if not object_list: raise InvalidPage self._has_next[page_number] = (len(object_list) > self.num_per_page) return object_list[:self.num_per_page] def has_next_page(self, page_number): "Does page $page_number have a 'next' page?" if not self._has_next.has_key(page_number): if self._pages is None: offset = (page_number + 1) * self.num_per_page self._has_next[page_number] = len(self.query_set[offset:offset+1]) > 0 else: self._has_next[page_number] = page_number < (self.pages - 1) return self._has_next[page_number] def has_previous_page(self, page_number): return page_number > 0 def first_on_page(self, page_number): """ Returns the 1-based index of the first object on the given page, relative to total objects found (hits). """ if page_number == 0: return 1 return (self.num_per_page * page_number) + 1 def last_on_page(self, page_number): """ Returns the 1-based index of the last object on the given page, relative to total objects found (hits). """ if page_number == 0 and self.num_per_page >= self._hits: return self._hits elif page_number == (self._pages - 1) and (page_number + 1) * self.num_per_page > self._hits: return self._hits return (page_number + 1) * self.num_per_page def _get_hits(self): if self._hits is None: self._hits = self.query_set.count() return self._hits def _get_pages(self): if self._pages is None: self._pages = int(ceil(self.hits / float(self.num_per_page))) return self._pages hits = property(_get_hits) pages = property(_get_pages)