# Do not include fields schema in rest api responses
**URL:** https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/do-not-include-fields-schema-in-rest-api-responses/671
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 21, 2019, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/do-not-include-fields-schema-in-rest-api-responses/671 "2019-03-21T09:40:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@morganlegal](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/morganlegal)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2019, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/do-not-include-fields-schema-in-rest-api-responses/671/1 "2019-03-21T09:40:42Z")
Hello, I’m new to cockpit and I wonder if it’s possible not to have the schema of the fields in the rest api response : `{"name":"title","type":"text","localize":false,"options":[]}` for example.
I’ve found the `simple=1` query parameter. It works great with most of the fields but not with the repeater field. Is there a solution? Because exposing the schema appears messy to me and consumes bandwidth. Thanks
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### Author:  [@pauloamgomes](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/pauloamgomes)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/do-not-include-fields-schema-in-rest-api-responses/671/2 "2019-03-21T16:48:10Z")
What I’m doing for those scenarios is to filter out stuff don’t want on the api answers using a `collections.find.after.` trigger
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### Author:  [@raffaelj](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/raffaelj)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/do-not-include-fields-schema-in-rest-api-responses/671/3 "2019-03-21T17:31:06Z")
> [@morganlegal](#):
>
> I’ve found the `simple=1` query parameter.
Nice, I wasn’t aware of this option.
> [@morganlegal](#):
>
> It works great with most of the fields but not with the repeater field.
If you don’t need all options from the repeater field, maybe this custom field helps: [tag file](https://github.com/raffaelj/cockpit-scripts/blob/master/custom-fields/field-simple-repeater.tag), [usage](https://github.com/raffaelj/cockpit-scripts/blob/master/custom-fields/field-simple-repeater.md)
I wrote it three months ago to have a clean output from a repeater field. Than I didn’t use it, so I’m not sure, if it has any issues or which features from the original repeater field are missing.
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### Author:  [@DrMartinGonzo](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/DrMartinGonzo)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/do-not-include-fields-schema-in-rest-api-responses/671/4 "2019-03-21T19:01:19Z")
I made this in a custom addon. A bit messy, I’m no php developper, but it gets the job done for me. Not 100% tested though.
```php
if (COCKPIT_ADMIN && COCKPIT_API_REQUEST) {
function remove_underscore_fields(&$array)
{
// don't remove "_pid", as it breaks sortable nested entries
$toRemove = ["_o", "_by", "_mby", "_modified", "_created"];
foreach ($toRemove as $name) {
if (isset($array[$name])) {
unset($array[$name]);
}
}
}
function make_simple(&$field)
{
if (is_array($field)) {
remove_underscore_fields($field);
foreach ($field as &$subentry) {
// for fields like repeater, set...
if (isset($subentry["field"])) {
unset($subentry['field']);
}
make_simple($subentry);
}
}
}
$simple_collection = function ($name, &$entries) use ($app) {
$isSimple = $app->param('simple');
if ($isSimple) {
foreach ($entries as &$entry) {
remove_underscore_fields($entry);
foreach ($entry as &$field) {
make_simple($field);
}
}
}
};
$simple_singleton = function ($singleton, &$data) use ($app) {
$isSimple = $app->param('simple');
if ($isSimple) {
remove_underscore_fields($data);
foreach ($data as &$field) {
make_simple($field);
}
}
};
$app->on("collections.find.after", $simple_collection);
$app->on("singleton.getData.after", $simple_singleton);
}
```
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### Author:  [@morganlegal](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/morganlegal)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/do-not-include-fields-schema-in-rest-api-responses/671/5 "2019-03-21T19:14:56Z")
Wow! Thanks a lot. I’ll try that
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### Author:  [@morganlegal](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/u/morganlegal)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2019, 6:50am UTC](https://discourse.getcockpit.com/t/do-not-include-fields-schema-in-rest-api-responses/671/6 "2019-03-27T06:50:14Z")
Works great anyway! Thanks!