Developers waste time manually specifying which fields to include in API responses instead of excluding unwanted ones
Backend developers building APIs must tediously list every single field they want to return when working with large data models, even when they only need to exclude 1-2 fields. This creates repetitive, error-prone code that becomes harder to maintain as data structures grow. Current API response libraries force developers to use the 'whitelist' approach (only/include) rather than the more intuitive 'blacklist' approach (exclude/except) when dealing with large datasets.
Validation Scores
Overall Score: 17.5%
Source Signals (5)
The way "only" is available I wish there was an "except" or "exclude" method as well. That can be handy if you have a large amount of data to return and you can't want to go through the pain of adding all those data just to exclude only one data. Like so; return responder()->success(User::al...
The way "only" is available I wish there was an "except" or "exclude" method as well. That can be handy if you have a large amount of data to return and you can't want to go through the pain of adding all those data just to exclude only one data. Like so; return responder()->success(User::al...
The way "only" is available I wish there was an "except" or "exclude" method as well. That can be handy if you have a large amount of data to return and you can't want to go through the pain of adding all those data just to exclude only one data. Like so; return responder()->success(User::al...
The way "only" is available I wish there was an "except" or "exclude" method as well. That can be handy if you have a large amount of data to return and you can't want to go through the pain of adding all those data just to exclude only one data. Like so; return responder()->success(User::al...
The way "only" is available I wish there was an "except" or "exclude" method as well. That can be handy if you have a large amount of data to return and you can't want to go through the pain of adding all those data just to exclude only one data. Like so; return responder()->success(User::al...
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Problem Details
- Category
- software_development
- Pain Keywords
- API response filtering, field exclusion, data serialization, repetitive code, API design friction
- Signals Collected
- 5
- Created
- 2026-07-13 23:40