We are in a weird situation where we have a relied-upon endpoint that both embeds data and sideloads it. I have no idea why it was built this way, and why no one thought hey, we seem to be sending all of this data twice, but to divine the reasons of the former stewards of our code is a sisyphean task.
I'm rewriting the currently-manually-built JSON output to use serializers, because deleting useless code is joyful. However, I can't seem to figure out two issues:
1) There does not seem to be a way to embed an object and also sideload it. I know I can sideload by setting embed :ids, include: true, but this only returns the ids of the sideloaded objects from within the parent relation.
2) Is there a way to not set the embeds status for every relation? It seems that the only way to set something sideloaded or embedded is that embed :ids... line, but that affects everything that is a relation. How do I get more granular control over embedding/sideloading?
