Don't do this with a public API with third-party clients!! This way you are directly tying the REST API to your database schema. The whole point of having a pu

Don't do this with a public API with third-party clients!! This way you are directly tying the REST API to your database schema. The whole point of having a public API (you know, Application Programming Interface) is that you can serve your data in a controlled way, maybe totally different from your schema. In the moment you change a little bit on your schema, congratulations, you broke all clients.