Adding pagination to views

DRF includes built-in pagination capabilities to control how many objects are sent over in your API responses. When the content of your site starts to grow, you might end up with a large number of subjects and courses. Pagination can be particularly useful to improve performance and the user experience when dealing with large datasets.

Let’s update the SubjectListView view to include pagination. First, we will define a pagination class.

Create a new file inside the courses/api/ directory and name it pagination.py. Add the following code to it:

from rest_framework.pagination import PageNumberPagination
class StandardPagination(PageNumberPagination):
    page_size = 10
    page_size_query_param = 'page_size'
    max_page_size = 50

In this class, we inherit from PageNumberPagination. This class provides support for pagination based on page numbers. We set the following attributes:

• page_size: Determines the default...