Summary

The Fields parameter in WorkflowGetRequest allows filtering response fields like status.phase or status.startedAt. However, this filtering doesn't work properly for map structures like status.nodes.

When I specify fields like status.nodes.id or status.nodes.phase, I still get all fields for all nodes. Using the exclusion pattern with -status.nodes.templateName also doesn't work.

The current Cleaner implementation doesn't respect field filtering within map values. This results in much larger responses than necessary when retrieving workflows with many nodes.

Use Cases

• Reducing response size for workflows with many nodes (10 000+) to avoid GRPC message size limits
• Improving performance when only specific node fields are needed
• Reducing network bandwidth usage for frequent workflow status checks

Current workaround is to request only status.phase,status.startedAt,status.finishedAt and skip status.nodes entirely, but this loses important node status information.

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