PUT does not remove nested properties [DATAREST-965]

[spring-projects-issues]

Ken Dombeck opened DATAREST-965 and commented

When removing items via PUT request on nested children they are not being removed. The request is behaving more like a PATCH than a PUT right now.

Here are the requests I am issuing:

Create parent

POST /parents -> 201
{
    "inner": {
        "items": [{"some": "test"}]
    }
}

update parent

PUT /parents/id -> 204
{
    "inner": {
        "object": "value"
    }
}

actual result

GET/parents/id -> 200
{
    "inner": {
        "items": [{"some": "test"}],
        "object": "value"
    }
}

expected result

GET/parents/id -> 200
{
    "inner": {
        "object": "value"
    }
}

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Affects: 2.5.5 (Hopper SR5)

Reference URL: #247

Backported to: 2.6 GA (Ingalls), 2.5.7 (Hopper SR7)

1 votes, 3 watchers

[spring-projects-issues]

Ken Dombeck commented

PR currently just has a couple of unit tests to reproduce this issue. There is not a fix yet

[spring-projects-issues]

Ken Dombeck commented

This is similar to DATAREST-150 but with nested objects instead

[spring-projects-issues]

Oliver Drotbohm commented

That should be in place now. I've changed the algorithm, to apply PUTs significantly as merging the values seems easier on that level and all the potential deserialization customizations have been in place.

I incorporated your test case in the fix I pushed and added you as author on the test case