Setting props for a nested object

REST
1

Hey,

Imagine we are building a comments feature for our restaurant app.
We have a comments data table with a one to one relation with both User and Restaurant. Now we want to display a list of comments for a particular restaurant. We want it to contain user’s name and avatar and the comment content.

https://api.backendless.com/v1/data/Comments?loadRelations=user&where=restaurant.objectId='someId' and user.objectId='someOtherId'

Everything works well however we are downloading a lot of unnecessary data (whole user profile which can contain a lot of things) for each comment when we need only user.name and user.avatar

Limiting this with props parameter returns “Unable to retrieve data. Query contains invalid object properties.”

https://api.backendless.com/v1/data/Comments?loadRelations=user&where=restaurant.objectId='someId' and user.objectId='someOtherId'&props=user.name,user.avatar

Is there any other way to do this?

Thanks in advance for your support.

Best,
Matt

2

Hi Matt,

You can retrieve only required fields by setting ‘properties’. You can see example on the REST console in screenshot below.

Cheers, Artur.
http://support.backendless.com/public/attachments/5376663379d338341967c5c63c0778c8.png</img>

5376663379d338341967c5c63c0778c8.png
5376663379d338341967c5c63c0778c8.png1327×644 63.5 KB

3

Hey Artur,

I know that. I’m asking if this can be done for a nested object.

Best,
Matt

4

Not at the moment. The discussion is open, though. We will notify you on any progress.

5

Does “discussion is open” means it’s under development?

6

No, that means that this is obviously a useful feature and we will set this topic under consideration for our team.

7

Thanks for clarification.

8

Assigned tag BKNDLSS-12258