Ability to get/set continuation token

[azure]

Ability to get/set continuation token

[moderakh]

@george-deamont You can get the results in pages using fetch_next_block however that requires keeping an instance of QueryIterator in memory since we currently do not expose the continuation token to the user's code.

Exposing continuation token to the user's code for queries against partitioned collection is in our roadmap, but for the time being please keep an instance of QueryIterator and use fetch_next_block to the results in pages.

[stephane-tagheuer]

I have the same expectations as @george-deamont .
Reading and updating the SDK code on my side, I have been able to achieve what I wanted, modifying this line:

azure-cosmos-python/azure/cosmos/execution_context/base_execution_context.py

Line 47 in a21f6fb

if 'continuation' in options and self._is_change_feed:

options["continuation"] is overridden by default. I don't really understand why this behavior is not allowed to the end user.

My use-case is to write a paginated API endpoint which rely on cosmos-db for pagination purpose. The continuation token is a good candidate for my use-case.
@moderakh, keeping the QueryIterator is not possible in my case as I am writing a stateless service which will be deployed on several instances.
Any clue to help me implement my use-case, a paginated endpoint using markers ?

[southpolesteve]

Closing this issue due to age. Active development of our Python SDK has moved to https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python. We have also released 4.0 which includes many updates and new features. If this issue still needs our attention, please reopen it in the new repository.