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In order to set the pagination style for the entire project, you need to set the DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS and PAGE_SIZE on the project settings. To do so, go to settings.py and on the REST_FRAMEWORK variable, add the following: REST_FRAMEWORK = { 'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'rest_fr...

Override Pagination Style: Every available pagination style can be overridden by creating a new class that inherits from one of the available styles and then alters its parameters: class MyPagination(PageNumberPagination): page_size = 20 page_size_query_param = 'page_size' max_page...

Lets assume that we have a complex api, with many generic views and some generic viewsets. We want to enable PageNumberPagination to every view, except one (either generic view or viewset, does not make a difference) for which we want a customized case of LimitOffsetPagination. To achieve that we n...

This is an advanced subject, do not attempt without first understanding the other examples of this page. As stated in the official Django Rest Framework on pagination: Pagination is only performed automatically if you're using the generic views or viewsets. If you're using a regular APIView, you...

We have seen in those examples (ex_1, ex_2) how to use and override the pagination classes in any generic class base view. What happens when we want to use pagination in a function based view? Lets also assume that we want to create a function based view for MyModel with PageNumberPagination, res...