Discussion regarding the complex response structure for REST & GraphQL (Developer Experience)

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Since this is a first found google result on “Strapi 4 simplify object”, let me share a simple GTD function which I use:

const simplifyStrapiObject = obj => {
  if (obj.data && obj.data.attributes !== undefined) {
    Object.assign(obj, obj.data.attributes);
    obj.id = obj.data.id;
    delete obj.data;
    delete obj.meta;
  }
  if (obj.attributes) {
    Object.assign(obj, obj.attributes);
    delete obj.attributes;
  }

  const relationships = Object.keys(obj).filter(key => key !== 'data');
  relationships.forEach(relationship => {
    const children = obj[relationship];
    if (Array.isArray(children?.data) && children.data?.length > 0) {
      const mapped = children.data.map(child => simplifyStrapiObject(child))
      obj[relationship] = mapped;
    } else if (children?.data !== undefined) {
      obj[relationship] = simplifyStrapiObject(children)
    }
  });
  return obj;
}

Use like for any controller, such as super.create() - here for a entity called Payment:

const payment = await super.create(ctx);
simplifyStrapiObject(payment)
return payment;

Please note that this function deliberately removes meta and therefore pagination info. Our use is for quickly returning just-created data.

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