django-universal-paginator 1.4.0

Simple pagination for django

This package is used to create standard or cursor navigation for django.

It has builtin templates, so you can use this library with minimal effort. Library can be used with jinja2 templates. If you are using django_jinja package, additional template tags are automatically registered to jinja2 engine.

If you are using cursor pagination, the queryset must be ordered with combination of data fields, which are unique across query.

Cursor pagination supports checking for next / previous page presence without any additional queries. There is used only single query to select records, no additional queries to count checking or next / previous checking.

Install

pip install django-universal-paginator

To INSTALLED_APPS add django_universal_paginator.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
        # ...
        'django_universal_paginator',
)

Settings

Classical paginator support following settings:

PAGINATOR_ON_EACH_SIDE

Count of links around current page, default: 3

PAGINATOR_ON_ENDS

Link count on start / end of list, default: 1

PAGINATOR_TEMPLATE_NAME

Default template name for paginator, default: 'paginator/paginator.html'

Usage

Template

To use this library first add {% pagination %} to django template or {{ pagination() }} to jinja2 template.

<!-- object_list.html -->
{% load paginator_tags %}

<ul>
        {% for object in object_list %}
                <li>{{ object }}</li>
        {% endfor %}
</ul>

<div class="pagination">{% pagination %}</div>

To modify style look to paginator.html.

URLs

This package can be used without URL modification, but if you want clean URL patterns without GET parameters, like /object-list/3/, you can use following code (example contains both methods - standard and cursor).

# urls.py

from django.urls import path, register_converter
from django_universal_paginator.converter import PageConverter, CursorPageConverter

register_converter(PageConverter, 'page')
register_converter(CursorPageConverter, 'cursor_page')

# standard
url(r'^object-list/<page:page>', ObjectList.as_view(), name='object_list'),
# or cursor
url(r'^cursor/<cursor_page:page>', ObjectList.as_view(), name='cursor_list'),

Classical navigation

To use classical navigation, just add paginate_by attribute to class based list view.

# views.py

class ObjectList(ListView):
        paginate_by = 10
        # model = ...

If you are using function based views, you can use django_universal_paginator.utils.paginate_queryset.

# views.py
from django_universal_paginator.utils import paginate_queryset

def list_view(request):
        queryset = Book.objects.order_by('pk')
        paginate_by = 10
        page = 1
        paginator, page, queryset, is_paginated = self.paginate_queryset(queryset, page,
        paginate_by)

        context = {
                "paginator": paginator,
                "page_obj": page,
                "is_paginated": is_paginated,
                "object_list": queryset,
        }

        reutrn render_to_string("list.html", context)

Cursor pagination

To use cursor pagination, queryset must be correctly ordered (order key must be combination of keys which are unique across queryset).

# views.py
from django.views.generic import ListView
from django_universal_paginator.cursor import CursorPaginateMixin

class List(CursorPaginateMixin, ListView):
        paginate_by = 10
        queryset = Book.objects.order_by('pk')