Create api parameters that allow for certain blocks not to be returned. So for example, only return items, and not query, facets, pagination, localisation.

[kiivihal]

Currently, we have a number of distinct blocks in the API output. Since not every API consumers are not using all the blocks it is a waste of bandwidth to include them all. So I propose to make them configurable from the API. The blocks we are talking about are:

• query
• pagination
• layout
• items
• facets

I think the query and items blocks should always be returned. So if we want to have a pragmatic solution we could just have a full and minimal render set. I think the diw could also really benefit from a fine-grained access to the different blocks.

[manuelbernhardt]

I started working on this, but the code is heavily repeated so I started DRYing it up.
We however have no test for the API, which is not good.

Could you provide me with a list of example API calls that render the various formats:

• XML
• JSON
• JSONP
• KML (different flavors)
• SIMILE
• SIMILEP

Then I can start to build a test case for the API