REST API update_user_object returns ENTIRE user object?

REST
1

So i’m testing out my project and i’m updating one field of the user with this…

def update_user_object(self, data):
    """
    Updates a field for the logged in user.

    :param data: dictionary with format {"field":"value","field2":"value2"}
    :type data: dict

    :return: Json response
    :rtype : dict
    """
    if self.activeLogin:
        headers = self.userHeaders
        requestUrl = self.baseUrl + "/users/" + str(self.objectId)
        response = self.put_request(requestUrl, headers, json.dumps(data))
        if type(response) == requests.models.Response:
            response = response.json()
        return response
    else:
        return {'error': "Must log in before updating user objects"}

with data parameter set as:
data = {}
data[“golden”] = new_amount

all works okay… but the response takes a while and is really long…

a simple update of one user field results in a response of:

{‘character_data’: {‘hat_type’: 3, ‘hair_type’: 6, ‘head_type’: 21, ‘legs_type’: 0, ‘hair_color’: 16725881, ‘legs_color’: 2050295, ‘torso_type’: 16, ‘torso_color’: 1531647, ‘character_name’: ‘JesterOC’}, ‘lastLogin’: 1624336806000, ‘userStatus’: ‘ENABLED’, ‘created’: 1615400957000, ‘displayName’: ‘JesterOC’, ‘init_user_upon_login’: True, ‘accountType’: ‘BACKENDLESS’, ‘avatar’: None, ‘ownerId’: ‘B7A24F67-7D8C-4E91-9647-057871EB48E0’, ‘socialAccount’: ‘BACKENDLESS’, ‘oAuthIdentities’: None, ‘WAXaddress’: ‘5n3sg.wam’, ‘ETHaddress’: ‘0xe5ae6e6826b27d064c59a1d161a97e2c29057985’, ‘nickname’: None, ‘golden’: 25, ‘___class’: ‘Users’, ‘blUserLocale’: ‘en’, ‘updated’: 1624336819000, ‘objectId’: ‘B7A24F67-7D8C-4E91-9647-057871EB48E0’, ‘email’: ‘ocey92@gmail.com’}

Am i missing something in my code that I need to add to have a response with only updated field(s) in the response?

Thanks in advance, JesterOC

2

Hi JesterOC,

This is by design, the update operation returns the entire object back.

Regards,
Mark

3

Awww, shucks… Any chance of adding something so only specified fields are returned?

Maybe something like:

‘?return_all_fields=false’

Tacked on the end of the rest url?

4

Hi @JesterOC ,

Unfortunatelly no, we are not planning to add this feature.
In your case object is not big and can’t cause big impact on request execution time.

Regards, Andriy

5

Yeh. Okay…
i’ll have to invest more time in research PYTHON + Backendless REST functions…
And do some coding… (I was planning on using user data table to hold the user’s item inventory data)
I haven’t got database functions yet. (
excluding read_user_object() and update_user_object()
)