Unclear how to resume iterating with PageIterator if the callback returns False

[jasonjoh]

In other SDKs, the iterator class typically has a Resume method to restart the iteration where it left off, and a corresponding State property to check if the iterator has completed or not. For example, in .NET:

var pageIterator = PageIterator<Message, MessageCollectionResponse>
    .CreatePageIterator(
        graphClient,
        messages,
        (msg) =>
        {
            Console.WriteLine(msg.Subject);
            count++;
            // If we've iterated over the limit,
            // stop the iteration by returning false
            return count < pauseAfter;
        });

await pageIterator.IterateAsync();

while (pageIterator.State != PagingState.Complete)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Iteration paused for 5 seconds...");
    await Task.Delay(5000);
    // Reset count
    count = 0;
    await pageIterator.ResumeAsync();
}

Is there a way to do this in this SDK?

[jasonjoh]

For context, this is so I can add Python snippets to this documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/paging

[jasonjoh]

I've done some experimentation, and I found that after a pause, I can just call iterate again to start back up from where it left off. However, there's no good way that I can see for my code to detect that it should stop calling iterate. Once the iterator gets to the last page from the server, my code just continually iterates over that page.

while True:
    # The callback here returns false after iterating over 25 messages
    await page_iterator.iterate(Paging.message_callback_with_pause)

    # Ideally I could test something here and break out of the loop

    time.sleep(5)

[sanmai-NL]

@jasonjoh Can you use the has_next attribute of PageIterator under Python?

[sanmai-NL]

I seems like has_next never gets updated. And I also end up in loop with PageResult.odata_next_link staying the same.

[sanmai-NL]

@shemogumbe As author of the page iterator PR, can you please check whether my previous comment arises from a defect?