Glossary term
What is opaque cursor? Meaning for developers
In Practical Design Problems
A token the client sends back without understanding it. The server can change what is inside whenever it wants.
Learn it properly · Practical Design ProblemsLesson 3: Design Pagination: Offset vs Cursor (Keyset)Why a large OFFSET is slow, how keyset paging works with a stable sort and a tiebreaker, opaque cursors and GraphQL connections.In API Design
A position string the client sends back unchanged and must not read or build itself.
Learn it properly · API DesignLesson 3: Pagination, Filtering and SortingOffset versus cursor pagination with real timings, stable ordering, filters, sorting, and how to return links and counts.