To reduce load on the service, GET operations return a maximum limit of
100 items at a time. If a request supplies no limit or one that exceeds
the configured default limit, the default limit is used instead.
This behavior is called pagination. Pagination gives you the ability
to limit the size of the returned data and to retrieve a specified
subset of a large data set. Pagination has two key concepts: limit and
marker.
- Limit is the restriction on the maximum number of items for that
type that can be returned. - Marker is a reference to an object's ID and is in the list of
paged results for a particular resource. For example, if the
resource is a load balancer, the marker is the load balancer ID at
which to begin the list of the paged results.
To navigate the collection, you can set the limit and marker
parameters in the URI. For example, ?limit=10&marker=1234 displays a
maximum of 10 addresses in the paginated results, beginning with the
address whose ID is 1234.
You can also use the offset parameter, which is a count of the number
of objects from where the paginated list is started.
If a marker beyond the end of a list is given, an empty list is
returned.