TeamCity 2026.1 breaks editing parameters (and perhaps other things?)

[cailyoung]

tcWebHooks/tcwebhooks-web-ui/src/main/resources/buildServerResources/WebHook/js/editWebhookTemplate.js

Line 284 in 67e0c68

url: window['base_uri'] + '/app/rest/webhooks/templates/id:' + templateId + '/templateItems/' + buildTemplateId + '?fields=**',

When editing a parameter that existed before updating our TeamCity to 2026.1 we get this error:

jetbrains.buildServer.server.rest.errors.BadRequestException: Using '**' in fields specification is disabled by default due to performance concerns. To enable it, set the internal property 'rest.request.allNestedFieldsRecursively.enabled=true' on the server.

Plugin version 2.0.1
TeamCity version 2026.1

We will explore setting the property and report back if it works around the issue.

[cailyoung]

Setting rest.request.allNestedFieldsRecursively.enabled=true in the properties fixes the issue, however it seems like JetBrains is asking you as the plugin author not to use that query parameter any more.

[netwolfuk]

It was a useful shortcut to just pass in ** to the rest api to indicate that I wanted the API to return all the fields and sub-fields.

However, if that's no-longer the suggested way, I will need to figure out all the fields I want, and ask for them by name.

I could change the REST API itself and specify the fields that are returned by default, but I was trying to keep the REST API fairly lightweight, and only return heavy objects when requested.

Thanks for reporting. I had obviously not discovered this on my TeamCity instances. I'll give it a test when I get to a computer.