https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Possible-to-exclude-descriptor-field-from-NiFi-REST-API/m-p/126843#M31145 <P>Some API calls have a recursive and non-recursive attribute, but I wouldn't count on that being ubiquitous. If you're interacting with the API from a command line, I can't recommend 'jq' enough. Pipe the output of e.g. curl call into this JSON parser/query processor. It also adds syntax highlighting as an extra bonus.</P> Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:03:15 GMT andrewg 2016-06-08T19:03:15Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Possible-to-exclude-descriptor-field-from-NiFi-REST-API/m-p/126842#M31144 <P>When working with the NiFi REST API and no UI is it possible to exclude the processor's config -&gt; descriptors field from the JSON response? Simply looking to avoid the large volume of useless data during development. </P> Wed, 08 Jun 2016 15:59:14 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Possible-to-exclude-descriptor-field-from-NiFi-REST-API/m-p/126842#M31144 bschofield 2016-06-08T15:59:14Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Possible-to-exclude-descriptor-field-from-NiFi-REST-API/m-p/126843#M31145 <P>Some API calls have a recursive and non-recursive attribute, but I wouldn't count on that being ubiquitous. If you're interacting with the API from a command line, I can't recommend 'jq' enough. Pipe the output of e.g. curl call into this JSON parser/query processor. It also adds syntax highlighting as an extra bonus.</P> Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:03:15 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Possible-to-exclude-descriptor-field-from-NiFi-REST-API/m-p/126843#M31145 andrewg 2016-06-08T19:03:15Z