Link to internal page w/ relationship field returns too much data

beautifullittlefoollast year

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 {
        name: 'internalHref',
        label: 'Internal URL',
        type: 'relationship',
        relationTo: 'pages'
      }

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  hristo6004last year

  If you're not using GraphQL, unfortunately for now I don't think you can get only the specific fields the way you want it. You only get the whole JSON. AFAIK

  @423216344302092288

  was working on a select fields plugin and there was discussions here about such feature in Payload 3, but not sure if there's been anything yet officially.

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  ritsu0455last year

  I have an old one [PR](

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/5942

  ) it has a lot of conflicts at this point

  
  
  

  I'm gonna back to this soon and this will be in Payload 3

  
  
  

  at the moment

  https://github.com/r1tsuu/payload-enchants/tree/master/packages/fields-select

  and default select option

  https://github.com/r1tsuu/payload-enchants/tree/master/packages/fields-select#default-select-option-for-relationship-fields
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  beautifullittlefoollast year

  I accomplished what I needed using field hooks and a hidden field for the true internalHref. It still deals with processing all of the data in the CMS, but performance isn't impacted when using the site because only the shortened slug is returned:

  
  
  

        {
          name: 'internalHref',
          label: 'Internal URL',
          type: 'relationship',
          relationTo: 'pages',
          maxDepth: 0,
          hooks: {
            beforeValidate: [
              async ({ value, req }) => {
                if (typeof value === 'number') {
                  const pageData = await req.payload.findByID({
                    id: value,
                    locale: 'en-US',
                    collection: 'pages'
                  });
                  return pageData?.id;
                }
  
                return value;
              }
            ]
          },
          admin: {
            condition: (_, siblingData) => siblingData.type === 'internal',
            description: 'Route for link'
          }
        },
        {
          name: 'shortenedInternalLInk',
          label: 'Internal Link',
          admin: {
            hidden: true
          },
          type: 'text',
          hooks: {
            beforeValidate: [
              async ({ value, req, siblingData }) => {
                if (typeof siblingData?.internalHref === 'number') {
                  const pageData = await req.payload.findByID({
                    id: siblingData?.internalHref,
                    locale: 'en-US',
                    collection: 'pages'
                  });
                  return `/${pageData?.slug}`;
                }
  
                return value;
              }
            ]
          }
        },

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  hristo6004last year

  So you're still doing the computation (fetching the whole document), just not filling the memory with useless data?

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  beautifullittlefoollast year

  yep. now the header + footer isn't pulling in all of the block data for every single internally linked page, which was vastly degrading performance when browsing the site.

  
  

  its a bit slower publishing the page now because of this hook, but overall performance is much better now.