[feiiiiii5]

Problem

Auto-pagination stops at an empty page even when the response still carries a cursor. A caller doing for f in client.files.list(): ... receives only the items from the first page.

Reproduced against a mock transport that returns {"data": [], "next_page": "tok-3"} for GET /v1/files?page=tok-2: the client issues tok-2, gets the empty page with a further cursor, and stops. ['file_1'] where ['file_1', 'file_3'] is expected. The same BasePage backs skills.list() and the vault, environment, memory-store and session endpoints.

Root cause

src/anthropic/_base_client.py:211 dropped the cursor check behind an emptiness check:

items = self._get_page_items()
if not items:
    return False
return self.next_page_info() is not None

For the cursor-based page types (PageCursor, TokenPage, BidirectionalPageCursor) the cursor is independent of the rows returned with it, so those two statements disagree, and iter_pages() (:285-291) gates only on has_next_page().

Change

has_next_page() now defers to the cursor:

return self.next_page_info() is not None

Behaviour that is already cursor-driven is unchanged:

• SyncPage and other id-cursor pages still stop on an empty page, because their next_page_info() returns None when last_id is null.
• The has_more: false short-circuit from feat(pagination): avoid fetching when has_more: false #860 is preserved.

Tests and results

tests/test_pagination.py gains a case per cursor page type: an empty first-or-middle page that still returns a cursor must be followed.

• Base (0af01906, test file present, source unpatched): DEFER_PYDANTIC_BUILD=false uv run --no-sync pytest tests/test_pagination.py -q -p no:randomly -> 3 failed, exit 1. The log shows the tok-2 response carrying next_page: tok-3 with no following request.
• Head (aac10d6): same command -> 3 passed, exit 0 (re-run after a comment reword, 3 passed in 2.84 s).
• Offline set around it: 6 files -> 323 passed, 2 skipped, exit 0.
• Wider tree excluding tests/api_resources/: 1 failed, 2101 passed, 11 skipped, 1 xfailed. The one failure, test_agent_toolset.py::test_text_io_is_utf8_under_ascii_locale, reproduces identically at base; it is a non-ASCII path artifact in this environment, not a change in behaviour.
• ruff check passes, ruff format --check clean, pyright --project . reports 0 errors. mypy reports 42 errors, all in the untouched tests/test_client.py, and the same 42 when that file is checked alone, so this change adds none.
• tests/api_resources/ needs the repository's npm mock server and was not run here.

Scope and open questions

Two points a maintainer may want to decide differently:

1. The edit is in the shared BasePage.has_next_page(). The alternative is to override it per class in pagination.py, which keeps the base class as-is but repeats the same three lines for each cursor page.
2. With this change, a server that returns an empty page while echoing the same cursor advances forever. That property already holds for non-empty pages, since nothing in iter_pages() compares successive cursors, so this change does not introduce it; it does widen when it can be reached.

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[feiiiiii5]

Checking in on this one — CI has been green since aac10d65 and it has had no review for about two weeks.

The two open decisions are both about where the fix belongs, so a one-line steer is all I need:

1. I changed the shared BasePage.has_next_page() in _base_client.py. The narrower option is to override it per class in pagination.py — same three lines, repeated for each cursor page type, base class untouched. I went with the base because the empty-page rule genuinely differs between id-cursor and token-cursor pages and that is exactly the knowledge the base class already has.

2. Related: a server that returns an empty page while echoing the same cursor will now loop forever. That property already existed for non-empty pages — nothing in iter_pages() compares successive cursors — so this does not introduce it, but it does widen the set of responses that can reach it. If you would rather not have it here at all, adding a "stop when the cursor repeats" guard to iter_pages() would close it for both cases and I am happy to do that instead.

Happy either way, in one commit.

[feiiiiii5]

Hi @anthropic-sdk-python maintainers — #1943 has been open since 27 September with CI green, so this is the one nudge I planned.

Recap: auto-pagination stops at an empty page even when the response still carries a cursor, so for f in client.files.list(): ... silently returns only the first page's items. has_next_page() gated the cursor check behind an emptiness check, but the cursor-based page types (PageCursor, TokenPage, BidirectionalPageCursor) treat the cursor as independent of the rows that came with it — the same BasePage backs skills.list() and the vault, environment, memory-store and session endpoints. The fix defers to the cursor.

The question I would most like settled, because it is the one design decision I could not make from the code: with the fix, a server that returns an empty page plus a cursor is now followed to the next page, which means a caller iterating a cursor that never terminates can loop — iter_pages() already guards against an unbounded walk with a page cap, but only by page count. Should this also carry an "empty page with a cursor" cap (say, stop after N consecutive empty pages) so a misbehaving server cannot make a caller spin, or is the existing cap enough for you?

[tomer-ant]

Thanks. This is fixed on main in c027a26, so we're closing this PR.