REST API Pagination for Certificate Search endpoint

[AbdouMechraoui]

Version: 1.0,
Revision: EJBCA 8.2.0 Enterprise

I have come across a strange behavior when searching for certificates using the endpoint /v2/certificate/search. The pagination_summary.total_certs field does not reflect the total number of certificates present for the given query. Instead it reflects the number of certificates in the response. This behavior changes once the last page is fetched, and the total number of certificates is reflected.

For instance:

• Assume that the number of certificates present is 12

First request body:

{
  "pagination": {
    "page_size": 5, 
    "current_page": 1 
   },
  "criteria":[{
      "property":"QUERY", 
      "value":"some_value", 
      "operation": "EQUAL"
  }]
}

The resulting response body:

{
    "certificates":[
        {...},
        {...},
        {...},
        {...},
        {...},
    ],
    "pagination_summary":{
        "current_page":1,
        "page_size":5,
        "total_certs":5   # Why is this 5? and not 12?
    }
},

Second request body:

{
  "pagination": {
    "page_size": 5, 
    "current_page": 2 
   },
  "criteria":[{
      "property":"QUERY", 
      "value":"some_value", 
      "operation": "EQUAL"
  }]
}

The resulting response body:

{
    "certificates":[
        {...},
        {...},
        {...},
        {...},
        {...},
    ],
    "pagination_summary":{
        "current_page":2,
        "page_size":5,
        "total_certs":5   # Why is this 5? and not 12?
    }
},

Third request body:

{
  "pagination": {
    "page_size": 5, 
    "current_page": 3 
   },
  "criteria":[{
      "property":"QUERY", 
      "value":"some_value", 
      "operation": "EQUAL"
  }]
}

The resulting response body:

{
    "certificates":[
        {...},
        {...},
    ],
    "pagination_summary":{
        "current_page":3,
        "page_size":5,
        "total_certs":12   # Finally total_certs is reflected!
    }
},

In the docs, it says that pagination is optional and omitting it would result in total_certs to be in the response. However, I get 500: General Error when I omit pagination.

Is there any way to get the value of total_certs for a given criteria?

[primetomas]

You should try version 8.3.2 now. There are some additional fixes in 9.0 that will be out soon.