Create relationships using array of ids

[joelcox]

Currently Restless requires you to make relationships by passing the related object:

{
  "title": "New post",
  "text": "Lorem ipsum",
  "comments":
  [
    {"id": 1, "name": "Jeffrey", "text": "Restless is awesome!"},
    {"id": 2, "name": "Joel", "text": "Second that"}
  ]
}

This makes sense when you're creating the related objects at the same time as the parent object, but not when you're making a relationship between existing objects. Therefore I'd propose adding the functionality to create relationships through passing an array of ids:

{
  "id": 1,
  "tag_ids":
  [
    1,
    2
  ]
}

Is this something people would be interested in?

(I'm aware it is possible to passing an array of objects, which only include the id, i.e.: {"comments": [{"id": 1}, {"id": 2}]})

[jfinkels]

So basically you are suggesting modifying the interface so that POSTing

{"comments": [1, 2]}

does the same thing as

{"comments": [{"id": 1}, {"id": 2}]}

Is that correct? This seems like a reasonable shorthand to me...

[joelcox]

Correct. I was just thinking that this could be easily achieved with a preprocessor, but it's convenient for sure.

Joël

On Sep 23, 2013, at 6:14 AM, jfinkels notifications@github.com wrote:

So basically you are suggesting modifying the interface so that POSTing

{"comments": [1, 2]}
does the same thing as

{"comments": [{"id": 1}, {"id": 2}]}
Is that correct? This seems like a reasonable shorthand to me...

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[jfinkels]

Flask-Restless now implements the JSON API protocol, so creating and updating relationships happen according to their specification, which is a bit different from the original implementation I had. (Theirs is better.)