Add POST /{repository}/{id}/{property} for adding new Objects to a Collection [DATAREST-349]

Benjamin M opened DATAREST-349 and commented

It would be cool, if there was POST /\{repository\}/\{id\}/\{property\}

For example I have an Entity Invoice which hast a List<Payment> payments:

@Entity
public class Invoice {
	@ElementCollection
	@CollectionTable(
			name="Invoice_Payment",
			joinColumns=@JoinColumn(name="Invoice_id")
	)
	List<InvoicePayment> payments;
}

At the moment I have to PATCH/PUT /invoices/\{id\} to add a Payment item, but it would be much easier, if I just could do:

POST /invoices/{id}/payments
{
  "amount":100.00,
  "currencyUnit":"EUR"
}

I can't really think of an inverse action, in order to delete (or update) a specific item from the List since there's no primary key. But for this scenario there are Map s.

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Btw: What's the proper way to use PATCH/PUT /\{repository\}/\{id\}/\{property\} ? I was able to clear my List of payments using \{\} as request body, but I wasn't able to replace all items with it. Here's what I tried:

{"payments":[{
        "currencyUnit": "EUR",
        "amount": 7000
}]}

[{
        "currencyUnit": "EUR",
        "amount": 7000
}]

{[{
        "currencyUnit": "EUR",
        "amount": 7000
}]}

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EDIT: I just recognized, that there are a lot of other calls missing :) Here we go:

PUT /{repository}/{id}/{property}/{propertyId}
So I can add/replace an element to/of a Map

PATCH /{repository}/{id}/{property}/{propertyId}
To replace the content of a Map entry,
doesn't put it into the list, if it's not already present

POST /{repository}/{id}/{property}/{propertyId}
The other way round of PATCH: Add the new element if it's not already present,
but do not replace an existing one

POST /{repository}/{id}/{property}
To add an element to a List

GET /{repository}/{id}/{property}
At the moment, this only works for entities, but not for @Embeddables,
Should work for both

Affects: 2.1.1 (Dijkstra SR1)

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