# Pagination Test Results
**Date**: 2025-10-16
**Updated**: 2025-10-16 22:15 ACDT
**Test Suite**: hostaway.pagination.test.ts
**Status**: ✅ **ALL TESTS PASSING** (10/10 passing)
**Mocking Status**: ✅ Complete - MockHostawayClient with dependency injection
## Summary
Successfully implemented complete pagination testing infrastructure with deterministic mock data. All pagination contracts verified with 10/10 passing tests using MockHostawayClient with dependency injection.
## All Tests Passing (10/10) ✅
1. **✓ list_properties > should respect limit parameter**
- Verifies API honors the `limit` query parameter
- Confirms responses stay within token budgets
2. **✓ list_properties > should return nextCursor when more results available**
- Validates cursor generation for paginated results
- Confirms `nextCursor` is present when `hasMore=true`
3. **✓ list_properties > should return disjoint pages (no duplicate IDs)**
- Ensures pagination returns unique, non-overlapping pages
- Validates page boundaries are respected
4. **✓ list_properties > should not return nextCursor on final page**
- Confirms final page detection with look-ahead pattern
- Ensures cursor is null/undefined when no more pages exist
5. **✓ list_properties > should handle empty results gracefully**
- Validates endpoint handles offset beyond dataset
- Returns empty array with 200 OK (not error)
6. **✓ search_bookings > should respect pagination with limit parameter**
- Same as #1 but for bookings endpoint
- Confirms consistent pagination behavior across endpoints
7. **✓ search_bookings > should return disjoint booking pages**
- Same as #3 for bookings endpoint
- Ensures no duplicate booking IDs across pages
8. **✓ search_bookings > should handle final page correctly**
- Same as #4 for bookings endpoint
- Validates final page detection
9. **✓ Pagination consistency > should enforce consistent pagination behavior**
- Tests both endpoints with same limit
- Validates consistent behavior across resource types
10. **✓ Pagination consistency > should never exceed hard cap with any page size**
- Critical test for context window protection
- Validates multiple page sizes (5, 10, 20, 50) all respect token hard cap
## Infrastructure Achievements 🎉
### Major Accomplishments
1. **HTTP Test Client** (`test/utils/httpClient.ts`)
- Spawns FastAPI server via uvicorn
- Loads `.env` credentials automatically
- Manages server lifecycle with proper cleanup
- Supports concurrent test execution
2. **Supabase Authentication**
- Test API keys stored in database
- Multi-tenant RLS policies working
- Proper credential encryption via Vault
3. **Environment Configuration**
- Dynamic environment variable loading from `.env`
- Test-specific overrides (token caps, page sizes)
- Proper Python venv activation
4. **Test Utilities**
- Token estimation with safety margins
- Pagination cursor assertions
- Mock data generators (Hostaway API structures)
### Technical Challenges Overcome
1. **MCP stdio incompatibility** → Pivoted to HTTP testing
- Initial approach used MCP stdio transport
- Discovered `fastapi-mcp` architecture incompatibility
- Successfully refactored to direct HTTP calls
2. **Database connection failures** → Fixed Supabase service startup
- Database container not running
- Restarted all Supabase services (kong, postgrest, auth, etc.)
- Created proper test fixtures (user, org, API key)
3. **Environment variable passing** → Implemented`.env` file parsing
- FastAPI server spawned by tests had no env vars
- Built custom .env parser in TypeScript
- Env vars now correctly passed to Python process
4. **Null vs undefined mismatch** → Updated assertion helper
- Python `None` serializes to JSON `null`
- TypeScript expected `undefined`
- Changed assertion to accept both (`toBeFalsy()`)
## Implementation Details
### MockHostawayClient with Dependency Injection ✅
Successfully implemented clean dependency injection approach (avoiding respx context manager complexity):
```python
# src/testing/mock_client.py
class MockHostawayClient(HostawayClient):
"""Mock client with deterministic data."""
TOTAL_LISTINGS = 100
TOTAL_BOOKINGS = 100
async def get_listings(self, limit: int = 100, offset: int = 0):
if offset >= self.TOTAL_LISTINGS:
return []
available = self.TOTAL_LISTINGS - offset
actual_limit = min(limit, available)
return generate_mock_listings(actual_limit, offset)
async def search_bookings(self, limit: int = 100, offset: int = 0, **kwargs):
if offset >= self.TOTAL_BOOKINGS:
return []
available = self.TOTAL_BOOKINGS - offset
actual_limit = min(limit, available)
return generate_mock_bookings(actual_limit, offset)
# src/api/main.py - conditional client creation
if is_test_mode():
from src.testing.mock_client import MockHostawayClient
hostaway_client = MockHostawayClient(config, token_manager, rate_limiter)
else:
hostaway_client = HostawayClient(config, token_manager, rate_limiter)
```
### Pagination Look-Ahead Pattern ✅
Fixed final page detection by implementing look-ahead pattern in endpoints:
```python
# Fetch one extra item to detect if there are more pages
listings_with_lookahead = await client.get_listings(limit=page_size + 1, offset=offset)
# Check if there are more pages
has_more = len(listings_with_lookahead) > page_size
# Return only requested page_size items
listings = listings_with_lookahead[:page_size]
```
This solves the problem where the last full page (e.g., items 90-99 in a 100-item dataset) would incorrectly show `has_more=true`.
### Cursor Format Fix ✅
Updated test to create properly signed cursors matching the server's HMAC-SHA256 format:
```typescript
const payload = { offset: 10000, ts: Date.now() / 1000 };
const payloadJson = JSON.stringify(payload, ['offset', 'ts']);
const signature = crypto.createHmac('sha256', 'hostaway-cursor-secret').update(payloadJson).digest('hex');
const cursorData = { payload, sig: signature };
const cursor = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(cursorData)).toString('base64');
```
## Next Steps (Future Work)
### Phase 5-8: Remaining Test Suites
- **US2**: Token cap tests (T010-T011)
- **US3**: Error hygiene tests (T012-T013)
- **US4**: Resource & field projection (T014-T016)
- **US5**: E2E workflows & performance (T017-T020)
- **US6**: CI/CD integration (T021-T026)
## Verification Commands
```bash
# Run pagination tests
cd test && npm run test -- hostaway.pagination.test.ts
# Run with verbose output
npm run test -- hostaway.pagination.test.ts --reporter=verbose
# Check Supabase status
docker ps | grep supabase
# Verify API key in database
PGPASSWORD=postgres psql -h 127.0.0.1 -p 54322 -U postgres -d postgres \
-c "SELECT id, organization_id, is_active FROM api_keys;"
```
## Conclusion
✅ **Milestone Complete**: Pagination contract testing infrastructure fully implemented with 10/10 passing tests.
All tests now validate critical pagination aspects with deterministic mock data:
- ✓ Limit parameter enforcement
- ✓ Cursor generation and validation
- ✓ Page disjointness (no duplicates)
- ✓ Final page detection (look-ahead pattern)
- ✓ Empty results handling
- ✓ Token budget compliance
- ✓ Cross-endpoint consistency
- ✓ Token hard cap enforcement
**Key Achievements**:
1. **MockHostawayClient**: Clean dependency injection replacing respx complexity
2. **Look-ahead pagination**: Correctly detects final pages (items 90-99 in 100-item dataset)
3. **Proper cursor encoding**: HMAC-SHA256 signed cursors matching production format
4. **Fast, reliable tests**: No external API dependencies, deterministic results