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Pagination and Sorting using Spring Boot

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While developing any spring boot API, We create many rest endpoints for the CRUD
operation on data. After some time when a large number of records get inserted into

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DB, then fetching the records from DB takes more time, because it fetches all the
records.

To overcome this problem there are multiple ways like -

1. We can have filters in our queries which are getting data.

2. We can set the limit

3. We can have pagination

So in this post, we will be discussing pagination and when it is required.

It is required wherever we are showing data in tabular format in UI, So instead of

getting all the data in one shot and showing only 50 records is not a good idea,
instead, we can use pagination in such scenarios and we can fetch relevant data
quickly.

Similar way for sorting we can sort the data on the UI side also but it will be a not
good idea because of performance, So we can sort it from the backend just by
passing column names by which we want to sort the records.

Development using Spring Boot

Now in the development part, we will follow the below steps-

1. Create a spring boot project from spring initializer

2. Create different packages like (entity, model, repo, service, controller, config,
util etc.)

3. Create a few crud endpoints (Like create a user, get all User)

Paging:

In spring boot for implementing paging and sorting, we need to extend

PagingAndSortingRepository in our UserRepository interface.

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1 @Repository
2 public interface UserRepository extends PagingAndSortingRepository<User, Integer> {
3 }

pagingrepo.java hosted with by GitHub view raw

PagingAndSortingRepository is an extension of CrudRepository.

PagingAndSortingRepository has two methods like

Page<T> findAll(Pageable pageable);

Iterable<T> findAll(Sort sort);

Now findAll() method will take Pageable in argument. PageRequest implements

Pageable.

1 @Override
2 public List<User> getUsersByPagination(int pageNo, int pageSize) {
3
4 //create pagerequest object
5 PageRequest pageRequest = PageRequest.of(pageNo, pageSize);
6 //pass it to repos
7 Page<User> pagingUser = userRepository.findAll(pageRequest);
8 //pagingUser.hasContent(); -- to check pages are there or not
9 return pagingUser.getContent();
10 }

paging.java hosted with by GitHub view raw

From controller we will send request like this

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1 @GetMapping
2 public List<User> getUserWithPaging(@RequestParam(defaultValue = "0") Integer pageNo,
3 @RequestParam(defaultValue = "10") Integer pageSize){
4
5 return userService.getUsersByPagination(pageNo,pageSize);
6
7 }

pagingcontroller.java hosted with by GitHub view raw

Now for testing, we can hit this URL from the postman.

http://localhost:8083/api/user?pageNo=0&pageSize=5

Page Number starts from zero. and page Size is the number of records per page.
Sometimes the user doesn't want to pass these values from the URL that's why I have
added default values.

Sorting:

We can apply Paging and sorting together as well one at a time also.

The above example is about only paging. Next is paging and sorting together. the
default order of sorting is descending.

PageRequest pageRequest = PageRequest.of(pageNo, pageSize,

Sort.by("name").ascending());

For sorting as we have seen PagingAndSortingRepository have one findAll() method

which will take Sort-Object in the argument. For sorting, we need to select by which
property we want to sort our results we can select multiple properties as well. e.g.

Sort nameSort = Sort.by("name");

Sort emailSort = Sort.by("email");

Sort multiSort = emailSort.and(nameSort);

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List<EmployeeEntity> result = repository.findAll(multiSort);

Slice:

Slice is similar to page only difference is while using Page it has extra data like the
first page, total page, pageNumber, and count so calculating this takes extra time
internally. whereas Slice is having only data and no extra info, so performance-wise
it is better.

@Repository
public interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User,
Integer> {

public Slice<User> findByEmail(String email, Pageable pageable);

}
In Service layer Method:

Slice<User> result = userRepository.findByEmail("[email protected]",

paging);

So this is all about paging and sorting using Spring Boot, It is very useful while doing
projects as well as for interviews also.

So I hope now you understood how to use it in projects If any doubts let me know.

You can check out the code on Github.

Thanks for reading!!

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