Nestjs Typeorm paginate

Pagination helper method for TypeORM repostiories or queryBuilders with strict typings

Install

$ yarn add nestjs-typeorm-paginate

Usage

Service

Repository

import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
import { Repository } from 'typeorm';
import { InjectRepository } from '@nestjs/typeorm';
import { CatEntity } from './entities';
import {
  paginate,
  Pagination,
  IPaginationOptions,
} from 'nestjs-typeorm-paginate';

@Injectable()
export class CatService {
  constructor(
    @InjectRepository(CatEntity)
    private readonly repository: Repository<CatEntity>,
  ) {}

  async paginate(options: IPaginationOptions): Promise<Pagination<CatEntity>> {
    return paginate<CatEntity>(this.repository, options);
  }
}

QueryBuilder

import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
import { Repository } from 'typeorm';
import { InjectRepository } from '@nestjs/typeorm';
import { CatEntity } from './entities';
import {
  paginate,
  Pagination,
  IPaginationOptions,
} from 'nestjs-typeorm-paginate';

@Injectable()
export class CatService {
  constructor(
    @InjectRepository(CatEntity)
    private readonly repository: Repository<CatEntity>,
  ) {}

  async paginate(options: IPaginationOptions): Promise<Pagination<CatEntity>> {
    const queryBuilder = this.repository.createQueryBuilder('c');
    queryBuilder.orderBy('c.name', 'DESC'); // Or whatever you need to do

    return paginate<CatEntity>(queryBuilder, options);
  }
}

Controller

import { Controller, Get, ParseIntPipe, Query } from '@nestjs/common';
import { CatService } from './cat.service';
import { CatEntity } from './cat.entity';
import { Pagination } from 'nestjs-typeorm-paginate';

@Controller('cats')
export class CatsController {
  constructor(private readonly catService: CatService) {}
  @Get('')
  async index(
    @Query('page', ParseIntPipe) page: number = 1,
    @Query('limit', ParseIntPipe) limit: number = 10,
  ): Promise<Pagination<CatEntity>> {
    limit = limit > 100 ? 100 : limit;
    return this.catService.paginate({
      page,
      limit,
      route: 'http://cats.com/cats',
    });
  }
}

Example Response

{
  "items": [
    {
      "lives": 9,
      "type": "tabby",
      "name": "Bobby"
    },
    {
      "lives": 2,
      "type": "Ginger",
      "name": "Garfield"
    },
    {
      "lives": 6,
      "type": "Black",
      "name": "Witch's mate"
    },
    {
      "lives": 7,
      "type": "Purssian Grey",
      "name": "Alisdaya"
    },
    {
      "lives": 1,
      "type": "Alistair",
      "name": "ali"
    },
    ...
  ],
  "meta": {
    "itemCount": 10,
    "totalItems": 20,
    "itemsPerPage": 10,
    "totalPages": 5,
    "currentPage": 2
  },
  "links" : {
    "first": "http://cats.com/cats?limit=10",
    "previous": "http://cats.com/cats?page=1&limit=10",
    "next": "http://cats.com/cats?page=3&limit=10",
    "last": "http://cats.com/cats?page=5&limit=10"
  }
}

items: An array of SomeEntity

meta.itemCount: The length of items array (i.e., the amount of items on this page) meta.totalItems: The total amount of SomeEntity matching the filter conditions meta.itemsPerPage: The requested items per page (i.e., the limit parameter)

meta.totalPages: The total amount of pages (based on the limit) meta.currentPage: The current page this paginator "points" to

links.first: A URL for the first page to call | "" (blank) if no route is defined links.previous: A URL for the previous page to call | "" (blank) if no previous to call links.next: A URL for the next page to call | "" (blank) if no page to call links.last: A URL for the last page to call | "" (blank) if no route is defined

Find Parameters

@Injectable()
export class CatService {
  constructor(
    @InjectRepository(CatEntity)
    private readonly repository: Repository<CatEntity>,
  ) {}

  async paginate(options: IPaginationOptions): Promise<Pagination<CatEntity>> {
    return paginate<CatEntity>(this.repository, options, {
      lives: 9,
    });
  }
}

Eager loading

Eager loading should work with typeorm's eager property out the box. Like so

import { Entity, OneToMany } from 'typeorm';

@Entity()
export class CatEntity {
  @OneToMany(t => TigerKingEntity, tigerKing.cats, {
    eager: true,
  })
  tigerKings: TigerKingEntity[];
}

// service
class CatService {
  constructor(private readonly repository: Repository<CatEntity>) {}

  async paginate(page: number, limit: number): Promise<Pagination<CatEntity>> {
    return paginate(this.repository, { page, limit });
  }
}

QueryBuilder

However, when using the query builder you'll have to hydrate the entities yourself. Here is a crude example that I've used in the past. It's not great but this is partially what typeORM will do.

const results = paginate(queryBuilder, { page, limit });

return new Pagination(
  await Promise.all(
    results.items.map(async (item: SomeEntity) => {
      const hydrate = await this.someRepository.findByEntity(item);
      item.hydrated = hydrate;

      return item;
    }),
  ),
  results.meta,
  results.links,
);

Raw queries

const queryBuilder = this.repository
  .createQueryBuilder<{ type: string; totalLives: string }>('c')
  .select('c.type', 'type')
  .addSelect('SUM(c.lives)', 'totalLives')
  .groupBy('c.type')
  .orderBy('c.type', 'DESC'); // Or whatever you need to do

return paginateRaw(queryBuilder, options);

Raw and Entities

A similar approach is used for TypeORM's getRawAndEntities

Let's assume there's a joined table that matches each cat with its cat toys. And we want to bring how many toys each cat has.

const queryBuilder = this.repository
  .createQueryBuilder<{ type: string; totalLives: string }>('cat')
    .leftJoinAndSelect('cat.toys', 'toys')
    .addSelect('COUNT(toys)::INTEGER', 'toyCount')
    .groupBy('cat.name');

This will allow us to get the paginated cats information with the additional raw query to build our actual response value. The return pagination object will be the same, but you're now able to handle or map the results and the raw objects as needed.

const [pagination, rawResults] = await paginateRawAndEntities(query, options);
pagination.items.map((item, index) => {
  // we can do what we need with the items and raw results here
  // change your items using rawResults.find(raw => raw.id === item.id)
});
return pagination;

Note about joined tables and raw values

Since the values of the raw results will include all the joined table items as queried, you must make sure to handle the items as needed for your use case. Refer to TypeORM's getRawAndEntities implementation as needed.

The rawResults array will look something like this:

[
    { // Bobby appears 3 times due to the joined query
      "cat_lives": 9,
      "cat_type": "tabby",
      "cat_name": "Bobby",
      "toyCount": 3
    },
    {
      "cat_lives": 9,
      "cat_type": "tabby",
      "cat_name": "Bobby",
      "toyCount": 3
    },
    {
      "cat_lives": 9,
      "cat_type": "tabby",
      "cat_name": "Bobby",
      "toyCount": 3
    },
    {
      "cat_lives": 2,
      "cat_type": "Ginger",
      "cat_name": "Garfield",
      "toyCount": 1
    },
    ...
]