🧪 Basic Features

• Projection
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🧪 Intermediate Features

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🧪 Advanced Features

• Expansion

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Projection (fields, fields!)

The projection feature allows clients to include or exclude specific fields from the API response using query parameters. This helps optimize payload size and gives frontend consumers more control over the data they receive.

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Include Specific Fields

Request

GET /api/users?fields=id,name,email

^{Where id, name, and email are the fields to include in the response.}

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
fields	string	Comma-separated list of fields to include.

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Response

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Benjamin Heidenreich",
    "email": "quinton42@example.net"
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Jairo Armstrong",
    "email": "damian83@example.org"
  }
]

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Exclude Specific Fields

Request

GET /api/users?fields!=created_at,updated_at

^{Where created_at and updated_at are the fields to exclude from the response.}

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
fields!	string	Comma-separated list of fields to exclude.

Response

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Benjamin Heidenreich",
    "email": "quinton42@example.net",
    "email_verified_at": "2025-04-17T01:19:49.000000Z"
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "Jairo Armstrong",
    "email": "damian83@example.org",
    "email_verified_at": "2025-04-17T01:19:49.000000Z"
  }
]