Tweaks for cursor pagination and docs

docs/api-guide/pagination.md

@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ You can then apply your new style to a view using the `.pagination_class` attrib
 Or apply the style globally, using the `DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS` settings key. For example:
 
     REST_FRAMEWORK = {
-        'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'apps.core.pagination.StandardResultsSetPagination'
    }
+        'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'apps.core.pagination.StandardResultsSetPagination'
+        }
 
 ---
 
@@ -163,6 +164,10 @@ Cursor based pagination is more complex than other schemes. It also requires tha
 
 #### Details and limitations
 
+Cursor based pagination requires a specified ordering to be applied to the queryset. This will default to `'-created'`, which requires the model being paged against to have a `'created'` field.
+
+
+
 This implementation of cursor pagination uses a smart "position plus offset" style that allows it to properly support not-strictly-unique values as the ordering.
 
 It should be noted that using non-unique values the ordering does introduce the possibility of paging artifacts, where pagination consistency is no longer 100% guaranteed.
@@ -192,7 +197,7 @@ To set these attributes you should override the `CursorPagination` class, and th
 
 * `page_size` = A numeric value indicating the page size. If set, this overrides the `DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE` setting. Defaults to the same value as the `DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE` settings key.
 * `cursor_query_param` = A string value indicating the name of the "cursor" query parameter. Defaults to `'cursor'`.
-* `ordering` = This should be a string, or list of strings, indicating the field against which the cursor based pagination will be applied. For example: `ordering = 'created'`. Any filters on the view which define a `get_ordering` will override this attribute. Defaults to `None`.
+* `ordering` = This should be a string, or list of strings, indicating the field against which the cursor based pagination will be applied. For example: `ordering = '-created'`. Any filters on the view which define a `get_ordering` will override this attribute. Defaults to `None`.
 * `template` = The name of a template to use when rendering pagination controls in the browsable API. May be overridden to modify the rendering style, or set to `None` to disable HTML pagination controls completely. Defaults to `"rest_framework/pagination/previous_and_next.html"`.
 
 ---
@@ -236,7 +241,8 @@ Let's modify the built-in `PageNumberPagination` style, so that instead of inclu
 
     class LinkHeaderPagination(pagination.PageNumberPagination):
         def get_paginated_response(self, data):
-            next_url = self.get_next_link()
            previous_url = self.get_previous_link()
+            next_url = self.get_next_link()
+            previous_url = self.get_previous_link()
 
             if next_url is not None and previous_url is not None:
                 link = '<{next_url}; rel="next">, <{previous_url}; rel="prev">'

docs/topics/3.1-announcement.md

@@ -203,3 +203,4 @@ The next focus will be on HTML renderings of API output and will include:
 This will either be made as a single 3.2 release, or split across two separate releases, with the HTML forms and filter controls coming in 3.2, and the admin-style interface coming in a 3.3 release.
 
 [custom-exception-handler]: ../api-guide/exceptions.md#custom-exception-handling
+[pagination]: ../api-guide/pagination.md

docs/topics/release-notes.md

@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ You can determine your currently installed version using `pip freeze`:
 
 ## 3.0.x series
 
+### 3.1.0
+
+**Date**: [5th March 2015][3.1.0-milestone].
+
+For full details see the [3.1 release announcement](3.1-announcement.md).
 
 ### 3.0.5
 

rest_framework/pagination.py

@@ -131,12 +131,19 @@ def _decode_cursor(encoded):
     """
     Given a string representing an encoded cursor, return a `Cursor` instance.
     """
+
+    # The offset in the cursor is used in situations where we have a
+    # nearly-unique index. (Eg millisecond precision creation timestamps)
+    # We guard against malicious users attempting to cause expensive database
+    # queries, by having a hard cap on the maximum possible size of the offset.
+    OFFSET_CUTOFF = 1000
+
     try:
         querystring = b64decode(encoded.encode('ascii')).decode('ascii')
         tokens = urlparse.parse_qs(querystring, keep_blank_values=True)
 
         offset = tokens.get('o', ['0'])[0]
-        offset = _positive_int(offset)
+        offset = _positive_int(offset, cutoff=OFFSET_CUTOFF)
 
         reverse = tokens.get('r', ['0'])[0]
         reverse = bool(int(reverse))
@@ -472,14 +479,15 @@ class LimitOffsetPagination(BasePagination):
 
 
 class CursorPagination(BasePagination):
-    # Determine how/if True, False and None positions work - do the string
-    # encodings work with Django queryset filters?
-    # Consider a max offset cap.
-    # Tidy up the `get_ordering` API (eg remove queryset from it)
+    """
+    The cursor pagination implementation is neccessarily complex.
+    For an overview of the position/offset style we use, see this post:
+    http://cramer.io/2011/03/08/building-cursors-for-the-disqus-api/
+    """
     cursor_query_param = 'cursor'
     page_size = api_settings.PAGE_SIZE
     invalid_cursor_message = _('Invalid cursor')
-    ordering = None
+    ordering = '-created'
     template = 'rest_framework/pagination/previous_and_next.html'
 
     def paginate_queryset(self, queryset, request, view=None):
@@ -680,12 +688,12 @@ class CursorPagination(BasePagination):
                 )
             )
         else:
-            # The default case is to check for an `ordering` attribute,
-            # first on the view instance, and then on this pagination instance.
-            ordering = getattr(view, 'ordering', getattr(self, 'ordering', None))
+            # The default case is to check for an `ordering` attribute
+            # on this pagination instance.
+            ordering = self.ordering
             assert ordering is not None, (
                 'Using cursor pagination, but no ordering attribute was declared '
-                'on the view or on the pagination class.'
+                'on the pagination class.'
             )
 
         assert isinstance(ordering, (six.string_types, list, tuple)), (