PUT of entity with links fails..

Hi Jon,
when I am doing a put to the self link with embedded links I get an error. This means I need to remove all links before putting an element. I think this should not be the desired behaviour. Or?

Sample:

{
   "description":"adasdadsasdads",
   "name":"Customer Corp",
   "links":[
      {
         "rel":"self",
         "href":"http://localhost:8080/web/api/customer/1"
      },
      {
         "rel":"customer.customer.users",
         "href":"http://localhost:8080/web/api/customer/1/users"
      },
      {
         "rel":"customer.customer.credentials",
         "href":"http://localhost:8080/web/api/customer/1/credentials"
      },
      {
         "rel":"customer.customer.addresses",
         "href":"http://localhost:8080/web/api/customer/1/addresses"
      },
      {
         "rel":"customer.customer.sector",
         "href":"http://localhost:8080/web/api/customer/1/sector"
      }
   ]
}

The response is:

{
  "cause" : null,
  "message" : "Property 'links' not found for entity de.model.customer.Customer"
}

Perhaps one additional note: the same happens, when using embedded entities like you described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12879975/spring-data-rest-uri-vs-entity-id. Of course the POST fails, if I remove the links as the exporter is not able to find the customer in the database.

Reproduce the PUT against the self link using the supplied customer JSON with embedded links, then inspect the Spring Data REST request handling around the reported "Property 'links' not found" response. Compare this with the embedded-entity POST case described in the issue and establish the expected behavior for links before adding a regression test.