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Asked: 2026-06-07T05:52:18+00:00

I am designing a REST like API for paginated data retrieval of a YUI-based

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I am designing a REST like API for paginated data retrieval of a YUI-based client.
The REST URL looks like this for a GET request:

/app/catalog/data?startIndex=<int>&results=<int>&sort=<sting>&dir=<string>

All parameters are optional, i.e. if no parameters are given, all data from DB will be dumped.
Now say that there are only 1000 records in the database. Following reqeust is made:

/app/catalog/data?startIndex=1100&results=25

What status code should I return if the paginated result from the database remains empty though the request was fine?! I can’t decide whether this is 204 or 404.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would say 204 is most appropriate. The request was successful, just with no results.

    10.2.5 204 No Content

The server has fulfilled the request but does not need to return an entity-body, and might want to return updated metainformation.

    Sounds exactly like the case.

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