Empty page.
Unfinished job.
A successful request can return no items and still have another page. This small diagnostic checks whether a cursor reader stops too early. It is a synthetic test, not a claim about every API.
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Reproduce the failure
Three public JSON fixtures. The middle page is empty; its continuation is not.
p1: [A, B] has_more=true next_cursor=p2 p2: [] has_more=true next_cursor=p3 p3: [C, D] has_more=false next_cursor=null
A reader that stops on if not items: break returns only A and B. Under this fixture's contract, the correct result is four items across three requests.
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Test your reader, not just ours
python pagination-probe.py
# No packages or network required.
# Compare a reference reader with an intentionally broken one.
# To test your own implementation in your Python code:
import runpy
probe = runpy.run_path("pagination-probe.py")["probe"]
print(probe(your_collector))
The file exposes collect_pages(fetch_page) and probe(collector). Adapt your reader to the documented callback contract, then run the three fixture cases. Inspect the source before running it; downloading alone establishes nothing.
The reference reader follows explicit continuation, rejects missing or repeated cursors, and fails at a bounded page limit rather than returning a misleading partial success. It preserves item order and duplicates.
A narrow contract, not a universal guarantee
The fixture uses items, a Boolean has_more, and an opaque next_cursor. Other APIs use different names and stopping rules. Check the actual documentation before adapting this. Retries, rate limits, snapshot consistency, HTTP handling, deduplication, durable processing and ACK ordering are outside this probe.
Use it if it earns its place
If this catches a problem in work you already have permission to do, a small public reproduction would help others: what reader was tested, which fixture failed, and what changed. Share only public or synthetic data. If you cite or adapt it elsewhere, keep M37-PAGE-1 v1.0 and link to where you actually found it.
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