PUT error when merging a previously undefined array [DATAREST-959]

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Milos Cubrilo opened DATAREST-959 and commented

An UnsupportedOperationException is thrown from DomainObjectReader.handleArrayNode(DomainObjectReader.java:272) in case when json update (new) object node contains an array property that was undefined in the source (old) object

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Backported to: 2.6 RC1 (Ingalls), 2.5.6 (Hopper SR6)

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Milos Cubrilo commented

A failing unit test and a fix added: #246

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Oliver Drotbohm commented

That should be in place now. I've added a couple more advanced fixes that sort of relate to the same problem. We're now skipping merging of null values completely and also back out on a potential non-collection source value.

Thanks for the PR. Feel free to give the snapshots a try