REST Api: Filtering response fields

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REST Api: Filtering response fields

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I'll like to have a real way to filter the fields I want in the responses from the REST Api.

 

Sadly, at the moment, it's almost impossible to decide which fields the response will include.

 

My situation is that I have to get all the deployed images from my company, using the Get Image Scan Results | Develop with Palo Alto Networks endpoint. We have 5898 images as of this discussion.

 

The compact option, or fields parameter values, are not useful as I need the vulnerabilities from the image.

 

Since I can't pick which fields to receive, to be able to get 50 images per call I need to set my client response size to 50ish megabytes!! A little absurd to transfer that much data when it should not be required.

 

That's a lot of data for what I actually need and the response for 50 images is kinda slow, taking around 2 seconds per call. I will need 118 calls to get them all which would take approximately 8 minutes.

 

Reducing the fields in the response might not speed up the call but it would at least reduce, significantly, the size of the response.

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