Spring Boot 4 Microservices & REST APIs · Lesson

Pagination and Sorting

Return large datasets efficiently.

Why Paginate

Returning thousands of rows at once is slow and memory-heavy. Pagination fetches one page at a time.

Spring Data provides Pageable, Page, and Sort for this.

JpaRepository already includes paging and sorting support, so you get these methods for free.

public interface UserRepository
    extends JpaRepository<User, Long> {
}