feat: allow unpaginated request

.gitignore

@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ lib/
 coverage/
 .DS_Store
 npm-debug.log
+.history

README.md

@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ const paginateConfig: PaginateConfig<CatEntity> {
    * Type: number
    * Default: 100
    * Description: The maximum amount of entities to return per page.
+   * Set it to 0, in conjunction with limit=0 on query param, to disable pagination.
    */
   maxLimit: 20,
 

src/helper.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ type Join<K, P> = K extends string ? (P extends string ? `${K}${'' extends P ? '
 
 type Prev = [never, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, ...0[]]
 
+// TODO: puts some comments here, in this ternary of doom
 export type Column<T, D extends number = 2> = [D] extends [never]
     ? never
     : T extends Record<string, any>
@@ -25,3 +26,6 @@ export type RelationColumn<T> = Extract<
 
 export type Order<T> = [Column<T>, 'ASC' | 'DESC']
 export type SortBy<T> = Order<T>[]
+
+export const positiveNumberOrDefault = (value: number | undefined, defaultValue: number, minValue: 0 | 1 = 0) =>
+    value === undefined || value < minValue ? defaultValue : value

src/paginate.spec.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
     isOperator,
     getFilterTokens,
     OperatorSymbolToFunction,
+    NO_PAGINATION,
 } from './paginate'
 import { PaginateQuery } from './decorator'
 import { HttpException } from '@nestjs/common'
@@ -124,6 +125,68 @@ describe('paginate', () => {
         expect(result.data).toStrictEqual(cats.slice(0, 1))
     })
 
+    it('should default to limit maxLimit, if maxLimit is not 0', async () => {
+        const config: PaginateConfig<CatEntity> = {
+            sortableColumns: ['id'],
+            maxLimit: 1,
+            defaultLimit: 1,
+        }
+        const query: PaginateQuery = {
+            path: '',
+            limit: NO_PAGINATION,
+        }
+
+        const result = await paginate<CatEntity>(query, catRepo, config)
+        expect(result.data).toStrictEqual(cats.slice(0, 1))
+    })
+
+    it('should return all cats', async () => {
+        const config: PaginateConfig<CatEntity> = {
+            sortableColumns: ['id'],
+            maxLimit: NO_PAGINATION,
+            defaultLimit: 1,
+        }
+        const query: PaginateQuery = {
+            path: '',
+            limit: NO_PAGINATION,
+        }
+
+        const result = await paginate<CatEntity>(query, catRepo, config)
+
+        expect(result.data).toStrictEqual(cats)
+    })
+
+    it('should limit to defaultLimit, if limit is negative', async () => {
+        const config: PaginateConfig<CatEntity> = {
+            sortableColumns: ['id'],
+            maxLimit: NO_PAGINATION,
+            defaultLimit: 1,
+        }
+        const query: PaginateQuery = {
+            path: '',
+            limit: -1,
+        }
+
+        const result = await paginate<CatEntity>(query, catRepo, config)
+
+        expect(result.data).toStrictEqual(cats.slice(0, 1))
+    })
+
+    it('should default to limit defaultLimit, if maxLimit is 0', async () => {
+        const config: PaginateConfig<CatEntity> = {
+            sortableColumns: ['id'],
+            maxLimit: NO_PAGINATION,
+            defaultLimit: 1,
+        }
+        const query: PaginateQuery = {
+            path: '',
+        }
+
+        const result = await paginate<CatEntity>(query, catRepo, config)
+
+        expect(result.data).toStrictEqual(cats.slice(0, 1))
+    })
+
     it('should default to limit maxLimit, if more than maxLimit is given', async () => {
         const config: PaginateConfig<CatEntity> = {
             sortableColumns: ['id'],

src/paginate.ts

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import { ServiceUnavailableException, Logger } from '@nestjs/common'
 import { values, mapKeys } from 'lodash'
 import { stringify } from 'querystring'
 import { WherePredicateOperator } from 'typeorm/query-builder/WhereClause'
-import { Column, Order, RelationColumn, SortBy } from './helper'
+import { Column, Order, positiveNumberOrDefault, RelationColumn, SortBy } from './helper'
 
 const logger: Logger = new Logger('nestjs-paginate')
 
@@ -171,16 +171,28 @@ function parseFilter<T>(query: PaginateQuery, config: PaginateConfig<T>) {
     return filter
 }
 
+export const DEFAULT_MAX_LIMIT = 100
+export const DEFAULT_LIMIT = 20
+export const NO_PAGINATION = 0
+
 export async function paginate<T extends ObjectLiteral>(
     query: PaginateQuery,
     repo: Repository<T> | SelectQueryBuilder<T>,
     config: PaginateConfig<T>
 ): Promise<Paginated<T>> {
-    let page = query.page || 1
-    const limit = Math.min(query.limit || config.defaultLimit || 20, config.maxLimit || 100)
+    const page = positiveNumberOrDefault(query.page, 1, 1)
+
+    const defaultLimit = config.defaultLimit || DEFAULT_LIMIT
+    const maxLimit = positiveNumberOrDefault(config.maxLimit, DEFAULT_MAX_LIMIT)
+    const queryLimit = positiveNumberOrDefault(query.limit, defaultLimit)
+
+    const isPaginated = !(queryLimit === NO_PAGINATION && maxLimit === NO_PAGINATION)
+
+    const limit = isPaginated ? Math.min(queryLimit || defaultLimit, maxLimit || DEFAULT_MAX_LIMIT) : NO_PAGINATION
+
     const sortBy = [] as SortBy<T>
     const searchBy: Column<T>[] = []
-    let path
+    let path: string
 
     const r = new RegExp('^(?:[a-z+]+:)?//', 'i')
     let queryOrigin = ''
@@ -234,19 +246,12 @@ export async function paginate<T extends ObjectLiteral>(
         }
     }
 
-    if (page < 1) page = 1
-
     let [items, totalItems]: [T[], number] = [[], 0]
 
-    let queryBuilder: SelectQueryBuilder<T>
+    const queryBuilder = repo instanceof Repository ? repo.createQueryBuilder('e') : repo
 
-    if (repo instanceof Repository) {
-        queryBuilder = repo
-            .createQueryBuilder('e')
-            .take(limit)
-            .skip((page - 1) * limit)
-    } else {
-        queryBuilder = repo.take(limit).skip((page - 1) * limit)
+    if (isPaginated) {
+        queryBuilder.take(limit).skip((page - 1) * limit)
     }
 
     if (config.relations?.length) {
@@ -360,10 +365,11 @@ export async function paginate<T extends ObjectLiteral>(
         )
     }
 
-    ;[items, totalItems] = await queryBuilder.getManyAndCount()
-
-    let totalPages = totalItems / limit
-    if (totalItems % limit) totalPages = Math.ceil(totalPages)
+    if (isPaginated) {
+        ;[items, totalItems] = await queryBuilder.getManyAndCount()
+    } else {
+        items = await queryBuilder.getMany()
+    }
 
     const sortByQuery = sortBy.map((order) => `&sortBy=${order.join(':')}`).join('')
     const searchQuery = query.search ? `&search=${query.search}` : ''
@@ -385,13 +391,15 @@ export async function paginate<T extends ObjectLiteral>(
 
     const buildLink = (p: number): string => path + '?page=' + p + options
 
+    const totalPages = isPaginated ? Math.ceil(totalItems / limit) : 1
+
     const results: Paginated<T> = {
         data: items,
         meta: {
-            itemsPerPage: limit,
+            itemsPerPage: isPaginated ? limit : items.length,
             totalItems,
             currentPage: page,
-            totalPages: totalPages,
+            totalPages,
             sortBy,
             search: query.search,
             searchBy: query.search ? searchBy : undefined,