Proper way to suppress a field from every element in a collection in python-eve

Question

I would like to prevent a certain largish field in a collection of documents from being returned as part of the basic resource request in an eve app. What is the proper way of doing this? I was thinking of using an on_fetch hook but thought maybe there was some way of specifying this in the schema instead.

Answer 1

Projections can also be used to Limit the Fieldset Exposed by the API:

When setting the datasource property for any given resource endpoint it is possible to explicitly exclude fields (of media type, but also of any other type really) from default responses:

people = {
    'datasource': {
        'projection': {'image': 0}
    },
    ...
}

Answer 2

http://python-eve.org/features.html#leveraging-projections-to-optimize-the-handling-of-media-files

See the above suggestion in the eve docs:

$ curl -i http://example.com/people/<id>?projection={"image": 0}