cursor

Relay-style cursor pagination for go-jet MySQL queries.

Encodes opaque cursor strings from column values, applies consistent WHERE / ORDER BY clauses, and builds GraphQL Relay–compatible Connection results with PageInfo and total counts.

Requirements

• Go 1.25+
• go-jet/v2/mysql — generated table/column types
• go-toolkit/dbx — Queryable for running queries

go get gitea.auvem.com/go-toolkit/cursor

Setup

Register every column referenced by a cursor at application startup. The registry resolves columns when encoding, decoding, and building SQL.

import (
    "gitea.auvem.com/go-toolkit/cursor"
    "yourapp/.gen/yourdb/table"
)

func init() {
    cursor.RegisterColumn(table.User.ID, table.Meeting.StartTime)
}

Concepts

Term	Meaning
Index	Stable position column (usually the primary key).
Order column	Column users sort by. May differ from the index.
Simple cursor	Index and order column are the same; paginate on one value.
Tuple ordering	Order column ≠ index; results sort by (order_col, index_col).
Composite cursor	Tuple ordering plus an encoded OrderValue on each edge — required for correct after pagination when sort values can repeat.

Quick start

1. Define a cursor factory

func newUserCursor() *cursor.Cursor[mysql.IntegerExpression, mysql.ColumnInteger] {
    return cursor.NewCursor(
        cursor.NewInt64Value(0, table.User.ID),
        table.User.ID,
        cursor.OrderDescending,
    )
}

2. Paginate a query

active := newUserCursor()
if after != nil {
    _ = active.Decode(*after)
}

stmt := table.User.
    SELECT(table.User.AllColumns).
    WHERE(filters).
    WHERE(cursor.PaginateConds(active)).
    ORDER_BY(cursor.OrderByClauses(active)...).
    LIMIT(int64(limit))

var rows []*User
dbx.MustQuery(db, stmt, &rows, nil)

Or use PageQuery to run the query and build edges in one step:

conn, err := cursor.PageQuery[User, mysql.IntegerExpression, mysql.ColumnInteger]{
    Sqlo:    db,
    Stmt:    table.User.SELECT(table.User.AllColumns),
    Conds:   filters,
    Cursor:  decodedCursor,       // nil for first page
    Default: newUserCursor,
    Limit:   limit,
    CountFn: cursor.BuildQueryCountFn(table.User.ID, table.User, filters),
    ToEdge: func(_ *cursor.Cursor[...], item *User) (cursor.GenericCursor, error) {
        return newUserCursor().CopyWithVal(
            cursor.NewInt64Value(item.ID, table.User.ID),
        ), nil
    },
}.Run()

3. Relay after / first args

conn, err := cursor.ConnectionFromRelayArgs(
    after, first, newUserCursor,
    func(c *cursor.Cursor[...], limit int) (*cursor.Connection[User], error) {
        return listUsers(c, limit)
    },
)

4. Composite (multi-column) sort

When sorting by a non-unique column, include both index and order values on each edge:

base := cursor.NewCursor(
    cursor.NewStringValue("", table.Meeting.ID),
    table.Meeting.StartTime,
    cursor.OrderDescending,
)

edgeCursor := base.CopyWithVals(
    cursor.NewStringValue(row.ID, table.Meeting.ID),
    cursor.NewTimestampValue(row.StartTime, table.Meeting.StartTime),
)

API overview

Layer	Types / functions
Column registry	RegisterColumn, RegisterColumnList, GetColumn, GetColumnByKey
Cursor values	NewInt64Value, NewUint64Value, NewStringValue, NewTimestampValue
Cursor	NewCursor, CopyWithVal, CopyWithVals, Encode, Decode, NewCursorFromAfterPtr
SQL helpers	PaginateConds, OrderByClauses, QueryCount, BuildQueryCountFn
Relay output	BuildEdges, PageQuery, ConnectionFromRelayArgs, Connection, PageInfo

Value types

Index / order type	Constructor
int64	NewInt64Value
uint64	NewUint64Value
string / UUID	NewStringValue
time.Time	NewTimestampValue

Extension points

Custom cursor value types implement [GenericExpr] (order values) and [ExprMarshaler] (index values). See package godoc for requirements.

Errors

Decode failures return ErrBadCursorString; use errors.Is to detect invalid client cursors.

Utilities

• ExtractNodes — nodes from a Connection
• DereferenceSlice — []*T → []T, skipping nils