Open APIs

Mask would mapping to one or - even more interesting - a combination of fields as one query filter parameter, with simpler query design from consumers perspective and thus more intuitive use. Of course eventually multiple masks can be supported and ...

@Omar Sood , thanks for brining this topic. I can certify it is indeed a great pain to follow existing guidelines when it comes to filtering or partial attributes selection based on the content of the arrays (such as char-cs, permissions, etc.). ...

@Christophe MICHEL Ah, okay. I see! In That case, mask sounds like the same concept that I called virtual fields. I like the naming mask a lot more. This doesn't seem part of v5 either yet, or is it? ------------------------------ With kind regards ...

I would oppose any official endorsement of "virtual fields" (not that my opinion carries any weight). I am unsympathetic to these sorts of cheats intended to relieve developers from having to understand something somewhat complicated query. This is a ...

My bad on alias and mask. I felt those were included in the guidelines but actually not as per 4.x versions. So I agree it is missing. Here below is how it would look like. In case of frequently used or recurring filters, it can be convenient to ...