The cursor.skip() method requires the server to scan from the beginning of the input results set before beginning to return results. As the offset increases, cursor.skip() will become slower. While range queries can use indexes to avoid scanning unwanted documents, typically yielding better performance as the offset grows compared to using cursor.skip()
for pagination. See more information on MongoDB: Pagination Example
Using the current version of mongo-go-driver (v0.0.15).An example to perform pagination showing latest entry first:
func Paginate(collection *mongo.Collection, startValue objectid.ObjectID, nPerPage int64) ([]bson.Document, *bson.Value, error) {
// Query range filter using the default indexed _id field.
filter := bson.VC.DocumentFromElements(
bson.EC.SubDocumentFromElements(
"_id",
bson.EC.ObjectID("$gt", startValue),
),
)
var opts []findopt.Find
opts = append(opts, findopt.Sort(bson.NewDocument(bson.EC.Int32("_id", -1))))
opts = append(opts, findopt.Limit(nPerPage))
cursor, _ := collection.Find(context.Background(), filter, opts...)
var lastValue *bson.Value
var results []bson.Document
for cursor.Next(context.Background()) {
elem := bson.NewDocument()
err := cursor.Decode(elem)
if err != nil {
return results, lastValue, err
}
results = append(results, *elem)
lastValue = elem.Lookup("_id")
}
return results, lastValue, nil
}
An example to call the pagination function above:
database := client.Database("databaseName")
collection := database.Collection("collectionName")
startObjectID, _ := objectid.FromHex("5bbafea2b5e14ee3a298fa4a")
// Paginate only the latest 20 documents
elements, lastID, err := Paginate(collection, startObjectID, 20)
for _, e := range elements {
fmt.Println(&e)
}
// Last seen ObjectID can be used to call next Paginate()
fmt.Println("Last seen ObjectID: ", lastID.ObjectID())
Note that you can also substitute the _id
field with another indexed field.