# September 18, 2025 - Inventory API – change of the default value for the withChildren parameter

**URL:** <https://community.cumulocity.com/t/september-18-2025-inventory-api-change-of-the-default-value-for-the-withchildren-parameter/12768>\
**Category:** Platform services\
**Tags:** Api-change, rest-api, platform-services\
**Created:** [September 20, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/september-18-2025-inventory-api-change-of-the-default-value-for-the-withchildren-parameter/12768 "2025-09-20T07:04:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 20, 2025, 7:04am UTC](https://community.cumulocity.com/t/september-18-2025-inventory-api-change-of-the-default-value-for-the-withchildren-parameter/12768/1 "2025-09-20T07:04:04Z")

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## Context

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**Change Type:** API change  
**Product area:** Platform services  
**Component:** Rest API  
**Deployed at:** [eu.latest.cumulocity.com](http://eu.latest.cumulocity.com), [apj.cumulocity.com](http://apj.cumulocity.com), [jp.cumulocity.com](http://jp.cumulocity.com), [cumulocity.com](http://cumulocity.com), [us.cumulocity.com](http://us.cumulocity.com)

> **Technical details**
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> **Build artifact:** cumulocity (2025.303.0)  
> **Internal ID:** MTM-62651

## Description

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The default value of the `withChildren` parameter for the `GET /inventory/managedObjects` endpoint has changed from `true` to `false`. To continue receiving child assets, devices, and additions in the response, clients must explicitly include `?withChildren=true` in their requests. This change aligns with previous announcements and aims to improve performance and response clarity. This behavior is controlled by the feature toggle `core.inventory.without.children`, which is enabled for all tenants by default. The toggle can be disabled, in which case the previous behavior is restored, where withChildren defaults to true unless explicitly set otherwise.