MediMaxOriginal post
React Developer
When using listDocuments on a parent collection, I'm observing that the response seems to include the full documents from related collections, not just their IDs, which is causing excessive reads. Is there a way to prevent this and ensure only the relationship IDs are returned? Alternatively, understanding that Query.select usually applies only to the parent collection's fields, is there any other Appwrite feature or query mechanism that allows selecting specific attributes (like $id) from linked documents directly within the parent listDocuments call, especially for nested relationships?
Summary
Developers are looking to prevent automatic fetching of relationship documents when calling listDocuments on a parent collection to reduce excessive reads. They want to only receive relationship IDs in the response instead of full documents. The goal is to select specific attributes like $id directly within the parent listDocuments call, even for nested relationships.