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I think your logic is reasonable as far as heuristic approaches to determining whether to serialize the included property go, but I also think that changing the behavior from “always serialize” to “sometimes serialize” could break clients that have been built around this library’s behavior (despite the JSON:API spec saying included is not a required property).
I think ultimately I’d vote to hate [EDIT] gate this behind a new configuration option just to be safe.
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Hi 👋
For an API that does not even support compound documents, there's not way to get the
included: []omitted from all the JSON:API document responses.Would it make sense to adjust this to just return the
includedmember when is reasonable? That being:includequery param (so valuable for the client to seeincluded: [])Thanks!