A city open-data portal queries UCS blade inventory with a filter for “cooling-tower” tags. The first page returns HTTP 200 with an empty items array. How should the pagination control flow treat that result?
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Short Explanation
An empty first drawer means nothing matched the label—you are finished looking, not locked out of the building. Zero items with a success status ends pagination; it is not a 404 on a missing resource and not a timeout retry.
Full Explanation
An empty first page under a successful status means the query matched no resources. That is a finished pagination loop, not an unrecoverable 404 on a missing URL and not a transient timeout. Mixing empty-list completion with missing-resource or retry branches sends the consumer down the wrong control-flow path.