{"html_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/782#issuecomment-691323302", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/782", "id": 691323302, "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDY5MTMyMzMwMg==", "user": {"value": 9599, "label": "simonw"}, "created_at": "2020-09-11T21:38:27Z", "updated_at": "2020-09-11T21:40:04Z", "author_association": "OWNER", "body": "Another idea: the default output could be the list of dicts:\r\n```json\r\n[\r\n  {\r\n    \"pk1\": \"a\",\r\n    \"pk2\": \"a\",\r\n    \"pk3\": \"a\",\r\n    \"content\": \"a-a-a\"\r\n  },\r\n  ...\r\n]\r\n```\r\nBUT... I could include pagination information in the HTTP headers - as seen in the WordPress REST API or the GitHub API:\r\n\r\n```\r\n~ % curl -s -i 'https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/commits' | head -n 40\r\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nserver: GitHub.com\r\ndate: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 21:37:46 GMT\r\ncontent-type: application/json; charset=utf-8\r\nstatus: 200 OK\r\ncache-control: public, max-age=60, s-maxage=60\r\nvary: Accept, Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With\r\netag: W/\"71c99379743513394e880c6306b66bf9\"\r\nlast-modified: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 21:32:54 GMT\r\nx-github-media-type: github.v3; format=json\r\nlink: <https://api.github.com/repositories/107914493/commits?page=2>; rel=\"next\", <https://api.github.com/repositories/107914493/commits?page=44>; rel=\"last\"\r\naccess-control-expose-headers: ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, Deprecation, Sunset\r\naccess-control-allow-origin: *\r\nstrict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload\r\nx-frame-options: deny\r\nx-content-type-options: nosniff\r\nx-xss-protection: 1; mode=block\r\nreferrer-policy: origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin\r\ncontent-security-policy: default-src 'none'\r\nX-Ratelimit-Limit: 60\r\nX-Ratelimit-Remaining: 55\r\nX-Ratelimit-Reset: 1599863850\r\nX-Ratelimit-Used: 5\r\nAccept-Ranges: bytes\r\nContent-Length: 118240\r\nX-GitHub-Request-Id: EC76:0EAD:313F40:5291A4:5F5BEE37\r\n\r\n[\r\n  {\r\n    \"sha\": \"d02f6151dae073135a22d0123e8abdc6cbef7c50\",\r\n    \"node_id\": \"MDY6Q29tbWl0MTA3OTE0NDkzOmQwMmY2MTUxZGFlMDczMTM1YTIyZDAxMjNlOGFiZGM2Y2JlZjdjNTA=\",\r\n    \"commit\": {\r\n```\r\nAlternative shapes would provide the pagination information (and other extensions) in the JSON, e.g.:\r\n\r\n`/squirrels/squirrels.json?_shape=paginated`\r\n```json\r\n{\r\n  \"rows\": [\r\n  {\r\n    \"pk1\": \"a\",\r\n    \"pk2\": \"a\",\r\n    \"pk3\": \"a\",\r\n    \"content\": \"a-a-a\"\r\n  }\r\n  ],\r\n  \"pagination\": {\r\n    \"next\": \"234\",\r\n    \"count\": 442\r\n  }\r\n}\r\n```", "reactions": "{\"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "issue": {"value": 627794879, "label": "Redesign default .json format"}, "performed_via_github_app": null}