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    Add support for returning only certain fields or links in the API.

    Review Request #6846 — Created Jan. 31, 2015 and discarded — Latest diff uploaded

    Information

    Djblets
    master

    Reviewers

    API resources now support a couple new query arguments for limiting the
    results in a payload, in order to reduce database queries and payload
    sizes.

    The ?only-fields= query argument limits the returned fields in the
    payload to the comma-separated list of field names. If the value is
    blank, then no fields will be returned, leaving only links.

    Likewise, the ?only-links= query argument limits the returned links in the
    payload. It behaves exactly like ?only-fields=.

    Resources that inject custom fields into the payload outside of
    serialize_object() can call get_only_fields() and get_only_links() to
    determine whether to include specific fields.

    Unit tests pass.

    Used this with changes in RBTools and verified, through some extra debugging
    information, that only the requested fields/links were being returned.