Is it possible to limit the response size from a REST API?

Question

RESTful API

I have a problem, my REST API is giving too big a response. Is it possible, purely theoretically, to limit his answer? Yes, I know that this needs to be solved on the side of the REST API backend, but is it still possible? It seems to me that there is no twist, I will cut off a piece of json code, and it will be unreadable!

Answer 1

1. too big - the concept is subjective.
I worked with api whose response size was in the tens and even hundreds of megabytes.
2. Of course, the size limitation is not made at the "cut off a piece of the answer" level, but at the business logic level.
If this is some kind of too large list, we make it possible to request with limit / offset.
If there are some heavy fields in the objects that are returned, we make it possible to exclude these fields from the answer,
etc.