Magento 2 Customer Api Custom Attribute

Question

I have added a custom attribute say child_first_name to customer entity. When I try to access through rest API, I can able to get the attribute in the result-

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 {
 "custom_attributes": [ {
 "attribute_code": "child_first_name",
 "value": "No name for student"
 }]
 }

However is it possible to group custom attributes like address in the api result. For example-

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 {
 "child_info": [ {
 "child_first_name": "some name"
 }]
 }

Answer 1

In short, no. The API uses that form so that the schema (keys) are always known and predictable, even if the data itself varies. This isn't particularly significant for REST/JSON, but it's very significant for SOAP (XML), which has a pregenerated WSDL defining the schema.