Remove properties related to Sharepoint from raw odata response - node.js

Question

I am using Sharepoint REST API to get/modify data in Sharepoint from NodeJS.
I am getting odata response from Sharepoint REST API and everything is working as expected.
Except one thing.
Currently I am getting response from Sharepoint REST API as below
{
"odata.metadata": "https://test.sharepoint.com/_api/$metadata#SP.ApiData.Lists",
"value": [
{
"odata.type": "SP.List",
"odata.id": "https://test.sharepoint.com/_api/Web/Lists(guid'sample-guid')",
"odata.etag": "\"6\"",
"odata.editLink": "Web/Lists(guid'sample-guid')",
"AllowContentTypes": true,
"BaseTemplate": 160,
"BaseType": 0,
"ContentTypesEnabled": true,
"CrawlNonDefaultViews": false,
"Created": "2015-05-19T11:13:46Z",
"DefaultContentApprovalWorkflowId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
"Description": "Use this list to track access requests to a site or uniquely permissioned items in the site.",
"Direction": "none",
"DocumentTemplateUrl": null,
"DraftVersionVisibility": 0,
"EnableAttachments": false,
"EnableFolderCreation": false,
"EnableMinorVersions": false,
"EnableModeration": false,
"EnableVersioning": true,
"EntityTypeName": "AccessRequests",
"FileSavePostProcessingEnabled": false,
"ForceCheckout": false,
"HasExternalDataSource": false,
"Hidden": true,
"Id": "sample-id",
"IrmEnabled": false,
"IrmExpire": false,
"IrmReject": false,
"IsApplicationList": false,
"IsCatalog": false,
"IsPrivate": false,
"ItemCount": 1,
"LastItemDeletedDate": "2015-05-19T11:13:46Z",
"LastItemModifiedDate": "2015-08-04T06:57:22Z",
"ListItemEntityTypeFullName": "SP.Data.AccessRequestsItem",
"MajorVersionLimit": 0,
"MajorWithMinorVersionsLimit": 0,
"MultipleDataList": false,
"NoCrawl": true,
"ParentWebUrl": "/",
"ParserDisabled": false,
"ServerTemplateCanCreateFolders": true,
"TemplateFeatureId: "sample-id",
"Title": "Test Title"
}, {
........
}]
}
In the above response I am getting fields which are related to Sharepoint System along with fields I want.
for ex: odata.type, odata.id, AllowContentTypes, BaseTemplate etc.
How do I get the fields which I required but not the other Sharepoint related fields.
Can anybody help ?
Thanks

Answer 1

For that purpose you could utilize $select query option (follow OData Version 2.0 for a more details).
Regarding odata.type and odata.id properties, since they are part
of metadata properties, you just need to specify the proper Accept
header in order to request them (eg: accept:
application/json;odata=minimalmetadata). For a more details follow JSON
Light support
in REST SharePoint API released article.
The following example returns a specific set of List resource properties such as AllowContentTypes and BaseTemplate:
Endpoint URI: https://contoso.sharepoint.com/_api/web/lists?$select=AllowContentTypes,BaseTemplate
Accept: application/json; odata=minimalmetadata
Method: GET
Result
{
"d": {
"results": [
{
"__metadata": {
"id": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/_api/Web/Lists(guid'82dcfcc5-e58c-4610-b4c3-589a7228e912')",
"uri": "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/_api/Web/Lists(guid'82dcfcc5-e58c-4610-b4c3-589a7228e912')",
"etag": "\"0\"",
"type": "SP.List"
},
"AllowContentTypes": true,
"BaseTemplate": 125
},
//...
]
}
}