OfferingSolutions Datashaper

Gives you the possibility to strip the data you want to send based on the query of the client using DTOs.

Nuget

The OfferingSolutions.Datashaper is available on Nuget:

http://www.nuget.org/packages/OfferingSolutions.DataShaper/

Demos

http://www.fabian-gosebrink.de/Projects/Datashaper https://github.com/FabianGosebrink/OfferingSolutions-DatashaperDemo

public IHttpActionResult Get(string fields = null)
{
    try
    {
        //...
        
        List listOfFields = new List();
        if (fields != null)
        {
            listOfFields = fields.Split(',').ToList();
        }

        IQueryable myItems = _repository.GetMyItems();

        //...
        
        var result = myItems
            .ToList()
            .Select(x => Datashaper.CreateDataShapedObject(x, listOfFields));

        return Ok(result);
    }
    catch (Exception)
    {
         return InternalServerError();
    }
}

Now you can shape your data based on the fields you send with your request.

GET /api/test?fields=Id,Title,Date

GET /api/test?fields=Id,Title,Date,ChildClasses.Description,ChildClasses.Id

Have fun!