Changing field patterns depending on the field visibility settings

API
1

Hi!
Here is an interesting behavior of the data in the fields, while changing the visibility of some of the essence (persona for example). In a typical situation when the permissions to visibility are not limited, the field looks like this.

     "person_id": {
        "name": "test name",
        "email": [
            {
                "label": "work",
                "value": "email@gmail.com",
                "primary": true
            }
        ],
        "phone": [{"value": "", "primary": true}],
        "value": 7
    },
    "active_flag": true,
    "person": {
        "id": 7,
        "company_id": 22222,
        "owner_id": {
            "id": 1111,
            "name": "Integrations team",
            "email": "email@gamil.com",
            "has_pic": true,,
            "active_flag": true,
            "value": 22222
        },

If you hide a person from the user, it will look like this.

    "person_id": 55,
    "active_flag": true,
    "person": [],

In this case, fields is problematic to interpret uniformly. Are there any recipes for working with this?

2

Hey @Derfirm,

Perhaps you could explain more what you’re trying to do. If a User (their API) has limited access to see a Person, etc - then this result makes sense to me.
Were you thinking that it should say something like ‘hidden’ or something similar?

3

Thx @David for you reply!
In general, I would like to understand whether it makes sense to try to parse these fields at all. My clients want to see data about the Deal, for example, in a third-party system and, unfortunately, it is not quite obvious to me how to deal with this. I would also like to know about other cases that change schema (or type) of the field.