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One test account has ten items and the list endpoint already returns all of them at once.
What you'll have at the end
A list endpoint that never returns more than the limit you set, however many rows exist
You need
A route that already returns a whole collection in one response, plus a way to seed that collection with more rows than your own test account happens to have, so you can see what the endpoint really returns once it isn't nearly empty.
Not covered
Choosing among offset, cursor, or keyset pagination once a dataset outgrows a simple slice: this recipe only puts a hard ceiling on one page, and any of those approaches can sit underneath the same ceiling later.
Leans on
One shared dependency instead of a check copied into every route
once more than two or three list routes need the same limit, skip, and has_more shape, that recipe turns the repeated block into one shared dependency every route can pull in instead of retyping it.
Every API error looks different right now
for making the rejection this ceiling raises share the same shape as every other error your API returns; this recipe only stops the ceiling itself from being missing.
Checked 18 Aug 2026
Part of the FastAPI cookbook