`~all` or `*` should work in `fields` too

Hey there! I was looking at graphql until I found you awesome library, thank you! I don’t have to add another yet API 🗡️

The question is: We have two models with a lot of fields, e.g

class Order:
    field0 = ....
    field1 = ...
    ...
    field35 = ...
   restaurant=Restaurant

class Restaurant:
   field0 = ...
   field1 = ...
   ...
   field60 = ....

And I want to make a request that will get All fields from Order, expand Restaurant, but only field0\field1 How can I achieve it with drf-flex?

I tried to solve it these ways:

1. GET /orders/?expand=restaurant - but it gives too much fields, I really want to only two from Restaurant because we have about 100 orders in a list and all of them will contain 60 additional fields
2. GET /orders/?fields=field0,field1,...,field35,restaurant.field0,restaurant.field1&expand=restaurant - In this case I get that I want to, but I have to add all of fields to params, and I really don’t want to do it on the frontend 😃
3. GET /orders/?expand=restaurant - give me too much fields too

What I really want to can be achieved with GET /orders/?fields=~all,restaurant.field0, restaurant.field2&expand=restaurant

But looks like ~all works only in expand and not on fields, right?

[allburov]

I finally had a change to update the library in production and test the new feature. It works!

Thank you a lot for supporting such a great project! 😃

[rsinger86]

I see your point here and agree this should should work the way you describe. I think it should go further and allow specifying all fields at nested levels, eg fields=restaurant.*. Hopefully I’ll get to this in the next few weeks. I appreciate the useful suggestion.