Response fields filtering/masking

[DanielCardonaRojas]

Hi,

I'd like to know if there is an easy way to modify the patch to mask the response fields by a query parameter (like /api/users?fields=email,name), I've tried the restplus approach with the X-Fields but that no longer works with the patch.

I thought the way to go would be to use a schema factory as shown in then marshmallow docs:
http://webargs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced.html. But I don't understand the code base enough to intervene.

[frol]

There is no built-in functionality at the moment, though I see the value in such a feature. Currently, given you may not want to spend too much time on this, I would recommend you add a parameter to the users endpoint accepting fields (marshmallow List field type will match your needs) and then in the endpoint itself you return a serialized output:

return schemas.BaseUserSchema(only=fields, many=True).dump(users).data

[DanielCardonaRojas]

Perfect, sounds fine. It did seem a little tricky to route the request object down to the response decorator, you're probably right, this would be time consuming.

Thanks for your quick reply.

[douglasfabretti]

I'm interested on this feature as well, I see a big value on having this OOO on flask-restplus.