Google Data Studio pagination in custom connector getData: undocumented

Question

In the getData() function I'm sometimes seeing some calls with a request that contains

pagination={startRow=1.0, rowCount=100.0}

and they seem to be ones that also have

scriptParams={sampleExtraction=true}

However, I can't see any documentation on pagination. Is this a stable feature? Will there ever be a request for a startRow that isn't 1.0?

I'm asking since to make robust pagination for some of our data sources may not be trivial, so would like to know if it's worth the effort.

Answer 1

According to this answer, made by Minhaz Kazi (Google's Data Studio developer), Community Connectors do not support pagination for web APIs at present.

I also tried to implement pagination and it doesn't work. Indeed, there are some weird requests made by Data Studio that makes you think you can do more than it is documented.