Depth Conditionally

[patelalok1309]

Describe the Bug.

i have a collection relation with 10 other collections having depth of 1 sending me data of all 10 related collections. you need to implement depth control over query , so i can get depth data conditionally

i hope you understand my problem.

Reproduction Steps

exp

collection with depth of 0
{
id: 1,
name: "asasd",
user: 1,
company: 1,
vendor: 1
}

collection with depth of 1
{
id: 1,
name: "asasd",
user: {
id: 1,
name: "asasd",
},
company: {
id: 1,
name: "asasd",
},
vendor: {
id: 1,
name: "asasd",
}
}

i want only

{
id: 1,
name: "asasd",
user: {
id: 1,
name: "asasd",
},
company: 1,
vendor: 1
}

Environment Info

Payload
Nextjs

[rajkumar-prime]

Nice catch, bruh!!! I am facing the same issue.

[vivenprimedemo]

Great note brother, i am using payload since last 1.5 year and i got very frustrated because of this issue.
I think they should fix this as soon as possible it will be a great help to developer community.

[hardikprime]

I am facing the same issue.

[aniketprime]

I'm also facing the same issue. When dealing with numerous related collections, the lack of depth control leads to fetching unnecessary data. This feature would greatly optimize query performance.

[akhrarovsaid]

Hey @patelalok1309

This sounds like something you would use populate for which is already supported.

Try adding a defaultPopulate to your users collection or using a populate in your fetch function. IIRC, you can also pair it with a select to select your top-level name field there.

Docs on this here.