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[Abyot Gizaw <abyota@xxxxxxxxx>]

I also use displayName. But if no displayName, I use name.


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Thank you,
Abyot.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> As you probably, if you do something like
> /api/organisationUnits.json?fields=*
>
> All the objects are expanded, and by default the idObjects / collection of
> idObjects are expanded to include id,code,name,href,created,lastUpdated.
>
> This adds a lot of space to default payloads, and I don't think we
> actually need all this properties.
>
> 1) Export use-case: We only want the id, nothing else is important, we
> just need something to link to
>
> 2) App use-case: You just want the id and displayName (you should never
> use name anymore anyways)
>
> I think all our apps probably already are requesting displayName (Jan?),
> so I don't think a change here would affect anyone.
>
> I suggest we change the default to just include the id, and then the user
> can expand more if he needs to (I'm also open to having id, displayName as
> default.. although I think in many cases you don't need displayName)
>
> --
> Morten
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