From f9e2fd49397569cba579763f13c21f7fc7d0e500 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Samantha Belkin <samantha.belkin@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:38:40 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] update to allow exclusion of relationships from block

---
 constants.go |  1 +
 response.go  | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/constants.go b/constants.go
index 23288d3..39f3bda 100644
--- a/constants.go
+++ b/constants.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ const (
 	annotationAttribute = "attr"
 	annotationRelation  = "relation"
 	annotationOmitEmpty = "omitempty"
+	annotationExclude   = "exclude"
 	annotationISO8601   = "iso8601"
 	annotationSeperator = ","
 
diff --git a/response.go b/response.go
index d6a4154..0e7ea21 100644
--- a/response.go
+++ b/response.go
@@ -351,10 +351,20 @@ func visitModelNode(model interface{}, included *map[string]*Node,
 			}
 		} else if annotation == annotationRelation {
 			var omitEmpty bool
+			var include = true
 
 			//add support for 'omitempty' struct tag for marshaling as absent
 			if len(args) > 2 {
 				omitEmpty = args[2] == annotationOmitEmpty
+				if args[2] == annotationExclude {
+					include = false
+				}
+			}
+
+			if len(args) > 3 {
+				if args[3] == annotationExclude {
+					include = false
+				}
 			}
 
 			isSlice := fieldValue.Type().Kind() == reflect.Slice
@@ -395,7 +405,9 @@ func visitModelNode(model interface{}, included *map[string]*Node,
 				if sideload {
 					shallowNodes := []*Node{}
 					for _, n := range relationship.Data {
-						appendIncluded(included, n)
+						if include {
+							appendIncluded(included, n)
+						}
 						shallowNodes = append(shallowNodes, toShallowNode(n))
 					}
 
@@ -427,7 +439,9 @@ func visitModelNode(model interface{}, included *map[string]*Node,
 				}
 
 				if sideload {
-					appendIncluded(included, relationship)
+					if include {
+						appendIncluded(included, relationship)
+					}
 					node.Relationships[args[1]] = &RelationshipOneNode{
 						Data:  toShallowNode(relationship),
 						Links: relLinks,