Usage of Exclude

To exclude an attribute in the output of your request, you can specify the exclude parameter in your query request. The attribute which is mentioned after the equals sign will be excluded. In case of excluding multiple attributes, specify each exclude with an & character after each other. You can also exclude metadata from desired path using special @metadata attribute name. However, excluding attributes from within the metadata is not supported, only whole metadata could be excluded.

Example:

Following will remove

Usage of Include

The include parameter can be used in cases when we would like our output to contain attribute values which are by default returned as "incomplete". An example of such attribute is the jpegPhoto attribute of a UserType (or any other FocusType) object.

Example: