Request: Array of fields to return

[corepay]

Thank you for making and publishing this hook. Saved me a ton of time and head scratching trying to other hooks and code to fetch associated data.

Have a request if you think worthy. How about an array on the target include that allows us to specify which fields to return? My postgres is a quite complex multi-tenant with a lot of relationships and useless associations and other fields that in these associations that is not relevant to the the response I need to return to the app.

I can discard the unnecessary data in an after hook but in my case would need to update and maintain 80+ tables - this option would save a ton of time and makes sense re: efficiency and compressing the response....

Whaddyathink?

const options = {
  include: {
    service: 'phones',
    nameAs: 'phone',
    keyHere: 'default_phone_id',
    keyThere: 'id'
    fields: ['name', 'number', 'extension', 'e164']     <-------- this
  }
}

[corepay]

Oh...@marshallswain I see you are one of the maintainers. Was going to mention I am using feathers-vuex on client with setupInstance, so assume that the service id should be returned as default...si?

[marshallswain]

Yeah, I'm the primary maintainer on this, now. The id would definitely require to be returned.

[corepay]

@marshallswain great! appreciate your efforts in community.

So what do you think about the request to provide an array of fields to return?

[marshallswain]

Since FeathersJS already has a query operator for $select, maybe it would make sense to update feathers-shallow-populate to allow you customize the params object. We could make it so the params attribute in each include could be a function that receives the params object AFTER feathers-shallow-populate has already built the query.`

{
  params: (params) => {
    params.query.$select = ['name', 'number', 'extension', 'e164']
  }
}

[marshallswain]

@corepay you can now customize the params, based on the work by @fratzinger in #16. Check out the updated docs in the readme. You'll need to install feathers-shallow-populate@2.1.0.

[corepay]

Works great! This helps a lot, makes a few related hacks less hacky.

Thank you @fratzinger and @marshallswain !