gardenofwine
reduce the object size of data objects after fetching from server
all data fetched from the server is cached in memory. Therefore, it is good practice that the apiParser return the minimal object needed for display, to preserve memory. For instance, the member data returned from the server is 5 times bigger than what is actually used.
in apiParser.js, every api call in OKnessetAPIMapping has an 'expectedObject' field. This field denotes the fields used by the application. All the other information returned form the server is not used, and can be truncated by the parser when it returns the info to the application. For example see the function createMinimalMemberItem which reduces the size of the member object to the minimum required.
