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RESTful API for Plone.
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Show only metadata_fields in GET content #1661

Open razvanMiu opened 1 year ago

razvanMiu commented 1 year ago

There is no way to get only the desired metadatas in GET content

davisagli commented 1 year ago

My initial reaction is that I would rather avoid adding this complexity unless there is a good reason. Why is it not good enough to only use the data you need from the response?

razvanMiu commented 1 year ago

One example of usage is that we have blocks that can embed content from other pages and we want to get only some specific metadata. If we get everything the response would be too big, especially if those pages have a lot of blocks. In my case I can avoid getting all the metadata field by making specific endpoints but I thought that making this generic would be useful.

davisagli commented 1 year ago

Okay, that helps me understand the use case. I'll try to take a look at the PR soon and think about what would be the best way to do it. In terms of performance it would be best to use the summary serializer from catalog metadata so that it isn't necessary to load the full content object from the ZODB. I'm not sure if that belongs in the content GET service, or a new service. (It might be possible to get from the @querystring-search service already, using a path criterion with depth: 1 ... though, that would not handle well when content is moved to a new path... so, a UID criterion then)

jensens commented 5 months ago

My 0.02€...