Implementing Pagination in IBM MDM

Before you start implementing the pagination feature for your search functionality I recommend you to explore the pagination facility for one of the existing search service. For eg: searchFSParty

Note that inside the <dwlcontrol> I had placed a few things extra. <pagestartindex>1</pagestartindex> <pageendindex>3</pageendindex> <returnavailableresultcount>true </returnavailableresultcount> Example 1 If the pageStartIndex is 1, the pageEndIndex is 10, and the total result count is 16, then 10 records will be returned in the first subset, and 6 records will be returned in the second subset. Example 2 If the pageStartIndex is 1, the pageEndIndex is 10, and the total result count is 8, then the pageEndIndex is considered to be equal to the total count, and 8 records will be returned in the set.

Now we are ready to implement the pagination in our custom search transactions. (Please read about how to create a custom search in my previous post) 1. The user sends a request XML for searchCustomer(My custom search transaction) transactions including the pagination parameters. Pagiantion Pramaters: <pagestartindex>1 </pagestartindex> <pageendindex>3</pageendindex> <returnavailableresultcount>true </returnavailableresultcount> (Will help you return the total number of records available on executing the query for your search.) 2. Inside the controller class for our searchCustomer/handlesearchCustomer we have to add response BObj class name in the DWLControl You will be having a method generated in you controller like the one below. public DWLResponse searchCustomer(xxxRequestBObj theBObj) throws DWLBaseException Add the following: Vector reponseBobsForTxn=new Vector(); reponseBobsForTxn.add("com.mycompany.xxxResponseBObj"); theBObj.getControl().setResponseBObjsForTxn(reponseBobsForTxn); Now come back to your component class: 3.Add the following just above your List list = bObjQuery.getResults(); boolean considerForPagination = PaginationUtils.considerForPagintion(xxxResponseBObj.class.getName(), theBObj.getControl()); theBObj.getControl().setConsiderForPagintionFlag(considerForPagination); System.out.println("Start Index--"+theBObj.getControl().getPageStartIndex()); System.out.println("End Index---"+theBObj.getControl().getPageEndIndex()); Now you are done with the pagination implementation for you custom search. To add to this if you want to restrict the size of the result set returned by a search transaction. Add the following line of code in your component class after you got the bObjQuery. bObjQuery.setMaxResults(int); What I had done to configure the max result count is add a 'maxresults' tag to my custom request object so that the user can configure the max results returned.