---
title: "Partial entities"
slug: "partial-entities"
abstract: "How to reduce the response size by limiting the requested member groups and member group properties of an entity."
---
# Partial entities

Limit the requested *member groups* and *member group properties* of an entity in order to reduce the response size.

To do this, use one or both of the following parameters:

| Name | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `groups` | `String` | the `name` value(s) of the requested `member_groups` object |
| `members` | `String` | the `name` value(s) of the requested `members` that are present in the `member_groups` object. |

Note that multiple values need to be separated by a `,`

Absence of these parameters defaults to 'select all'. This functionality is limited to the `/entities` resource and only `GET`, `HEAD` and `PUT` requests are supported.

## Example with partial request for member

```html
GET /entities/1?members=Title,FileSize

```

Response:

```json
{
  "id": 6077,
  "identifier": "655J0JFYmEC6AE8uYVL9kA",
  "properties": {
    "Title": "Pork Belly Ssäm with Mustard Seed Sauce",
    "FileSize": 0.1
  }

  ...
}

```

## Example with partial request for member group

```html
GET /entities/1?groups=Content

```

Response:

```json
{
  "id": 6077,
  "identifier": "655J0JFYmEC6AE8uYVL9kA",
  "properties": {
    "Title": "Pork Belly Ssäm with Mustard Seed Sauce",
  }

  ...
}

```