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docs: 📝 Add Collections
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export const metadata = {
title: 'Collection',
description: 'Definition of the Collection structure',
}
# Collection
Collections are a way to represent paginated groups of entities. They are used everywhere lists of entities can be found, such as a user's outbox. {{ className: 'lead' }}
Pages should be limited to a reasonable number of entities, such as 20 or 80.
## Entity Definition
<Row>
<Col>
<Properties>
<Property name="author" type="URI" required={true} typeLink="/types#uri">
Author of the collection. Usually the user who owns the collection. Can be the server actor.
</Property>
<Property name="first" type="URI" required={true} typeLink="/types#uri">
URI to the first page of the collection. Query parameters are allowed.
</Property>
<Property name="last" type="URI" required={true} typeLink="/types#uri">
URI to the last page of the collection. Query parameters are allowed.
If the collection only has one page, this should be the same as `first`.
</Property>
<Property name="total" type="number" required={true}>
Total number of entities in the collection, across all pages.
</Property>
<Property name="next" type="URI" required={false} typeLink="/types#uri">
URI to the next page of the collection. Query parameters are allowed.
If there is no next page, this should be `null`.
</Property>
<Property name="prev" type="URI" required={false} typeLink="/types#uri">
URI to the previous page of the collection. Query parameters are allowed.
If there is no previous page, this should be `null`.
</Property>
<Property name="items" type="Entity[]" required={true}>
Collection contents. Must be an array of entities.
</Property>
</Properties>
</Col>
<Col sticky>
```jsonc {{ 'title': 'Example Collection' }}
{
"author": "https://social.lysand.org/users/018ec082-0ae1-761c-b2c5-22275a611771",
"first": "https://social.lysand.org/users/018ec082-0ae1-761c-b2c5-22275a611771/outbox?page=1",
"last": "https://social.lysand.org/users/018ec082-0ae1-761c-b2c5-22275a611771/outbox?page=3",
"total": 46,
"next": "https://social.lysand.org/users/018ec082-0ae1-761c-b2c5-22275a611771/outbox?page=2",
"prev": null,
"items": [
{
"id": "456df8ed-daf1-4062-abab-491071c7b8dd",
"type": "Note",
"uri": "https://social.lysand.org/notes/456df8ed-daf1-4062-abab-491071c7b8dd",
"created_at": "2024-04-09T01:38:51.743Z",
"content": {
"text/plain": {
"content": "Hello, world!"
}
}
}
]
}
```
</Col>
</Row>