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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:13:53 +0100
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Subject: offset in view response
From: Stefan Lang <perfectly.normal.hacker@gmail.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
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I couldn't find a single sentence about the offset member
of a view response in either the reference on couchone.com
or the reference on the wiki.

Only thing I could find was this:

"Note: If you use group_level, total_rows and offset will be omitted
from the results (this is done to avoid scanning the entire tree. "

here: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_view_API

Does it make sense to display this offset to the user in pagination
(like "you are viewing elements 41 to 60 from 500")?
And is it future-proof or only informal meta data?

Or am I misunderstanding its meaning?

Thanks,
Stefan