Fields select plugin for Payload 3.0

Install

pnpm add @payload-enchants/fields-select

In your payload.config.ts:

/// ....
import { fieldsSelect } from '@payload-enchants/fields-select';

export default buildConfig({
  // ...
  plugins: [fieldsSelect()],
});

Description

Adds an option to select fields from Local API / REST API response like with GraphQL As well solves a problem, when you need only specific fields to populate from relationship field with defaultSelect option Could significally reduce your pages data sizes, especially when they are related to each other. PR with more powerful version of this to Payload - https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/5942

Usage

Local API:

/** As well findByID **/
payload.find({
  collection: 'posts',
  context: {
    /**
     * Selects:
     * top level id, title fields
     * text field from "nestedGroup" group field
     * all fields from "nestedArray" field
     * "title" field from populated relationship document
     **/
    select: ['id', 'title', 'nestedGroup.text', 'nestedArray', 'relationship.title'],
  },
});

REST API:

Use select query parameter, example: ?select[0]=id&select[1]=title

Default Select option for relationship fields

const linkField: RelationshipField = {
  custom: {
    /** Field will be populated only with id, slug and title fields **/
    defaultSelect: ['id', 'slug', 'title'],
  },
  name: 'link',
  relationTo: 'pages',
};