Action Descriptors with certain properties

Using Action Manager code you can request specific information about certain layers such as this code which gets the name of a layer given its index:

function sTID(string){
     return stringIDToTypeID(string);
}
function getLayerName(index){
     var ref = new ActionReference();
     ref.putProperty(sTID("property"), sTID("name"));
     ref.putIndex(sTID("layer"), index);
     var desc = executeActionGet(ref);
     return desc.getString(sTID("name"));
}

And for a given layer you can request the complete ActionDescriptor using something like this:

function getLayerDescriptor(index){
     var ref = new ActionReference();
     ref.putIndex(sTID("layer"), index);
     return executeActionGet(ref);
}

The first function is REALLY fast. The second one is much slower because it needs to find more information about the layer.

I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to request an action descriptor with only certain information about a layer.
In my trial and error I have discovered that ActionReferences can only have 1 item in their "property" so:

ref.putProperty(sTID("property"), sTID("name"));
ref.putProperty(sTID("property"), sTID("visible"));
ref.putProperty(sTID("property"), sTID("artboardEnabled"));

would result in an Action Reference where

typeIDToStringID( ref.getProperty(sTID("property"))) // "name"

If anyone has any ideas how I could go about this, it would be incredibly useful for optimizing code.
Much appreciated.