Add 'page' field to paginator links #56603
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Problem description
When building a Vue.js (or any SPA) client consuming a Laravel API, the
LengthAwarePaginator::linkCollection()
method returns an array of links containing:In many frontend use-cases, we don’t actually need the
url
— we only care about the page number so we can make an API call like:Currently, the page number has to be extracted from the
url
on the client side, which:Proposed solution
Include an additional
page
key in each link returned byLengthAwarePaginator::linkCollection()
, e.g.:Where:
page
is an integer for navigable links,null
for disabled links (e.g.,...
, previous when on the first page, next when on the last page).This provides the frontend with a ready-to-use page number, avoids URL parsing, and doesn’t break backward compatibility — all existing keys remain unchanged.