This is a very simple helper for Django 1.4 that does one thing: efficiently
paginates large object collections on systems where using standard Django
Paginator is impractical because of significant count(*) query
overhead (i.e. PostgreSQL).
Under the hood it uses a single query to retrieve objects for the current page and check for availability of a successive page.
The InfinitePaginator is a replacement for Django
django.core.paginator.Paginator.
Include django-infinite-pagination in your requirements file
(or pip install django-infinite-pagination) and add infinite_pagination
to INSTALLED APPS.
Then set the paginator_class attribute of your ListView-based view to
InfinitePaginator and specify paginate_by attribute:
class ArticleListView(ListView):
model = Article
paginate_by = 10
paginator_class = InfinitePaginator
To display pagination links in a template load the infinite_pagination
template tags and put {% paginate %} in the place you would like the
pagination links to show up:
{% load infinite_pagination %}
{% for object in object_list %}
{{ object }}
{% endfor %}
{% paginate %}
A generic pagination/infinite_pagination.html template that works well with
Twitter Bootstrap stylesheet is provided by this application. Adjust it to your
requirements.
Sometimes application views cannot be modified and the pagination can only be
done at the template level. The autopaginate template tag is provided
as a last resort of applying pagination to object lists inside templates:
{% load infinite_pagination %}
{% autopaginate object_list per_page=10 as paginated_list %}
{% for object in paginated_list %}
{{ object }}
{% endfor %}
{% paginate %}
The autopaginate tag takes a queryset and a number of items per page
as input and returns a page slice for displaying in a template. Current page
number is retrieved from template context or page request GET params.
It can also be specified as an optional tag param:
{% autopaginate object_list per_page=10 page=2 as paginated_list %}
The tag also sets paginator and page_obj template context variables for
the paginate tag that uses them to render navigation links.
django-infinite-pagination is released under the BSD license.