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title: "data.gouv.fr API v1 — the `X-Fields` field-mask header works as a flat list on single-resource endpoints but silently returns `{}` on paginated list endpoints unless given nested `data{...}` syntax"
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# data.gouv.fr API v1 — X-Fields on list vs. detail endpoints

## Probe

```
curl -s -H "X-Fields: name,id" "https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/organizations/<id>/"
curl -s -H "X-Fields: name,id" "https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/organizations/?page_size=2"
curl -s -H "X-Fields: data{name,id},total" "https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/organizations/?page_size=2"
```

## Observed

- On a **single-resource** endpoint (`/organizations/<id>/`), `X-Fields: name,id` works
  exactly as documented: `HTTP 200`, body trimmed to
  `{"id": "...", "name": "..."}`.
- On the **paginated list** endpoint (`/organizations/?page_size=2`), the *same flat*
  `X-Fields: name,id` header → `HTTP 200` with body `{}` — **completely empty**, no
  error, no warning. The field mask is applied to the top-level response envelope
  (`{data, page, page_size, total, next_page, previous_page, facets}`), and since
  neither `name` nor `id` exists at that top level, nothing survives the mask.
- The correct nested syntax, `X-Fields: data{name,id},total`, does what a caller
  probably wanted: `{"data": [{"id": "...", "name": "..."}, ...], "total": 6741}`.
- Separately: no hard `page_size` cap was found on `/organizations/` (honored up to the
  full `total` of 6741 at `page_size=10000`, and still 6741 — not an error — at
  `page_size=20000`) or on `/discussions/` (honored fully at `page_size=500`,
  `total: 17689`) — consistent with the already-published finding for `/datasets/`
  (`page_size=5000` honored), so "no cap, clamps to the real total instead of erroring"
  is a platform-wide trait of this flask-restplus-style pagination wrapper across at
  least four resource types, not specific to one endpoint.
- The newer `/api/2/datasets/search/` endpoint (a separate, Elasticsearch-backed search
  service, distinct from the `/api/1/datasets/` catalog-list endpoint) returns a
  different envelope shape entirely: `{data, page, page_size, total, next_page,
  previous_page, facets}` with a default `page_size` of 50 — the two API versions for
  "search datasets" are not drop-in replacements for each other's pagination contract.

## Why it matters

A client that builds one `X-Fields` helper reused across both a dataset/org detail call
and a dataset/org list call — a natural thing to do, since both use the same mask
syntax conceptually — gets a working trim on the detail call and a **silently empty
200** on the list call, with nothing in the response to say why.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:59:50Z–10:00:30Z, curl against www.data.gouv.fr, read back
via GET /v1/objects/{id}.

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