In mongo how to get the current position of the record in the table with the total records for pagination? - mongodb

Question

I'm trying to return create a paginated list. I used graphql to query the data. With my query, I pass the number of records I need (In a variable named first) and the ID of the last fetched record (In a varible called after). Now I managed to write a query (Note that I used mongoose) to fetch the records. Now what I need to do is get the relavant information to perform the pagination like hasNextPage, hasPreviousPage, currentPage and totalPages.
To get most of these information I need to get the total number of records in the database. To do that I need to send another db request.
I also need to know the position of the record in the table. No idea how.
Here's the query:
new Promise((resolve, reject) =>
Company.where('_id')
.gt(after)
.limit(first)
.lean()
.exec((error, doc) => {
if (error) {
reject(error);
}
resolve({
edges: doc,
pageInfo: {
hasNextPage: '...',
hasPreviousPage: '...',
currentPage: '...',
totalPages: '...'
}
});
}))
Any idea how to do this efficiently?

Answer 1

you can try this module mongoose-paginate
here what i uses, for pagination,
var current = req.query.filter.current;
var limit = req.query.filter.limit;
console.log('params.query.filter.current',current);
var skip = Number(limit)*Number(current)-Number(limit);
console.log('skip::',skip);
Cours.find({'attributes.version.status': true}).skip(skip).limit(limit).sort({_id:'asc'}).exec(function (err, resulta) {
if (err) {
console.log('erreur trouverCours');
res.json({
protecteds: err
});
}
console.log('cours ::', resulta);
res.json({
"data": resulta
});
});