ItemService REST API - retrieve children of an item in batches

Question

I'm wondering if there is a way to retrieve the item children in batches, I saw this ability other REST APIs where we can set pagination parameters like startIndex and itemPerPage.

Answer 1

You can do this in the Item Web API.

Basically you have 2 parameters

• page: Specify the page number in the result set of pages that the service shows.
• pageSize: Specify the number of results the service returns in the HTTP response.

Which will control how many items you get, and which virtual "page" to start from.

Example: /item/{id}/query?pageSize&page&database&includeStandardTemplateFields&fields

If you want to do it in native c# code

There is no such option. Basically when you hit GetChildren() or the .Children property of an item - all children will be resolved. This is also true for Item Web API querying, but you save a bit of bandwidth by only returning a subset.