PUT rewrite whole data, but might only rewrite what was changed

[adelura]

Assuming we have following structure:

{
  "posts": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "authorId": 2,
      "title": "bar"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "authorId": 2,
      "title": "foo"
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "postId": 1,
      "content": "bar"
    }
  ],
  "authors": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Artur Delura"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "Beata Delura"
    }
  ]
}

And there is a request sent to update post title with id 1:

$.ajax({
    url: "http://localhost:2121/posts/1",
    method: "PUT",
    data: {
         title: "baz"
    }
})

Then authorId field in post resource is lost.

I found this issue when I used such request: http://localhost:2121/posts?authorId=1&_embed=comments to get data. After updating I had no posts at all which was very strange :D

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I think it's a good idea to change only properties which was intend to be changed. In this case it's only title.

[JuoCode]

@adelura Use PATCH method

[adelura]

@JuoCode That make sense... I didn't even know that PATCHexists. Thanks 👍