Django pagination and “current page”

Question

I\'m currently developing a Django application which will make use of the infamous \"pagination\" technique. I\'m trying to figure out how the django.core.paginator module work

Answer 1

django-pagination should do what you want and comes wrapped in a pretty package you can just plug-in and use. It essentially moves the code from your views to the templates and a middleware.

EDIT: I just saw your edit. You can get the current objects on a page using {% autopaginate object_list %}, which replaces object_list with the current objects for any given page. You can iterate through it and if you want the first, you should be able to treat it like a list and do object_list[0].

If you want to keep this within your views, you could do something like this:

def show_question(question_pk):
    questions = Question.objects.all()
    paginator = Paginator(questions, 20)
    return render_to_response('show_question.html', { 'page' : paginator })

Within your template, you can access the current page you're on by doing:

# Gives you the starting index for that page.
# For example, 5 objects, and you're on the second page. 
# start_index will be 3.
page.start_index

# You can access the current page number with:
# 1-based index
page.number

With that, you should be able to do everything you need. There are a couple good examples here.