I have a problem with the design of Webtop search. The problem is that it pulls the maximum number of results and pages through those results. I have a requirement for unlimited number of results, which is not possible, given the number of results that could be returned and memory requirements for loading those results.
I'd rather it work like I've seen (and developed) on other platforms (JSP,PHP, etc). That is, an open-ended number of results, but the initial query will be limited to x number of results. Once the user pages through to the last page of x results the query will be executed again, this time excluding the first x and getting the second x results, and so on. Using this method, there would only be x number of results in memory at any given time. Usually this requires some sort of offset capability in the query. I know DFC has the ability to limit search results, such as top x results, but I've seen no way to select only a specific slice of the resultset.
Any ideas for how to accomplish this in Webtop?
