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# Expanding responses

Many objects allow you to request additional information as an expanded response by using the `expand` parameter. For example, a `Journal Entry` object has an assoication to its line entries; by using the `expand` parameter, you can request the full `Line Entry` objects. Expandable fields are denoted in this documentation in their description.

To expand responses, specifiy the nested fields that you would like to expand. For example, passing `line_entries` on a journal entry request would give you the complete Line Entry objects for every line entry associated with the journal entry.

You can recursively expand responses up to a depth of two levels, using a dot (`.`) between attributes. For example requesting `line_entries.ledger` on a journal entry would get the ledger assoiciated with a journal entry's corresponding line entries. Note that deep expansions, especially on lists of objects, may result in slower processing times.

Pass multiple expressions to the `expand` parameter to expand multiple objects at once in a single request.

<RequestExample>
  ```bash Request theme={null}
  curl --request GET \
      --url https://api.sandbox.teal.dev/v0/journal-entries/{journal_entry_id}?expand=line_entries.ledger \
      --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
      --header 'teal-instance-id: <teal-instance-id>'

  ```
</RequestExample>

<ResponseExample>
  ```json Response theme={null}
  {
      "datetime": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "description": "Payment of legal fees",
      "id": "C4ocnUQze8kDwQ3EczkZXn",
      "line_entry_ids": [
          "CWu49stZwxhVcHe7498qVx",
          "YT7R5Nc2gZBbkHbodiuxXP"
      ],
      "line_entries": [
          {
              "amount": 382.28,
              "id": "CWu49stZwxhVcHe7498qVx",
              // ...
              "ledger": {
                  "id": "7JRNsKwy2Lw66caxVU7WGC",
                  "name": "Accounts Receivable",
                  // ...
              },
          },
          {
              "amount": 382.28,
              "id": "YT7R5Nc2gZBbkHbodiuxXP",
              // ...
              "ledger": {
                  "id": "XMDsKVuW4Wmi3LTW31Qw6E",
                  "name": "Pluto Checking 4242",
                  // ...
              }
          }
      ]
  }

  ```
</ResponseExample>