Sorting list order with pagination

1. How do you handle pagination and sorting?
2. Is sorting required for pagination?
3. Should sorting reset pagination?
4. What is pagination order?

How do you handle pagination and sorting?

The Core API supports sorting and pagination for endpoints that return arrays of resources. The sorting mechanism places the resources in order; the pagination mechanism then returns a specific range of those ordered resources. You control sorting and pagination through URL query parameters.

Is sorting required for pagination?

If you use a search index that contains fields of the Nested type to query data and require pagination, you must specify the sorting method in the query conditions to return data in the specified order.

Should sorting reset pagination?

Order of data transformation

You can see that both filtering and sorting come before pagination. This means that whenever the order changes (sort), you should repaginate.

What is pagination order?

For print documents and some online content, pagination also refers to the automated process of adding consecutive numbers to identify the sequential order of pages.