Pagination (Oracle REST Data Services Java API Reference)

```
public interface Pagination
```
Provides services for Paginating resources

Author:

cdivilly

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`long`	`maximumLimit()`	Indicates the system wide maximum number of items that a single page may contain.
`PaginationState`	`startPagination(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, PaginationMetadata pagination)`	Determine the maximum number of items that should be included in the representation of the specified request

- Method Detail
  - startPagination
```
PaginationState startPagination(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                                PaginationMetadata pagination)
```
    Determine the maximum number of items that should be included in the representation of the specified request
    
    Parameters:
    
    request - The request for the resource
    
    pagination - The metadata about how the resource is paginated
    
    Returns:
    
    The maximum number of items to include in the resource representation
  - maximumLimit
```
long maximumLimit()
```
    Indicates the system wide maximum number of items that a single page may contain. No paginated resource will ever have more than this number of items. If the maximum number was unbounded, then clients using the limit query string parameter could cause a denial of service, by specifying a large value.
    
    Returns:
    
    The maximum number of items in any page