MongoDB .update should merge data

[ekryski]

It seems as if calling .update on the MongoDB service is replacing the data instead of merging it.

[daffl]

That might be ok now since we have service.patch which should do the merging.

[ekryski]

If we are sticking to the REST verbs then .patch and .update should probably behave the same.

[daffl]

Well update maps to PUT which technically replaces the resource where PATCH merges it. From the spec (RFC 5789):

The PUT method is already defined to overwrite a resource with a complete new body, and cannot be reused to do partial changes.

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The PATCH method requests that a set of changes described in the request entity be applied to the resource identified by the Request-URI.

[ekryski]

ok fair enough then update should replace and patch should merge them.

[daffl]

Yep. And for patch we can just use { $set: data } right?

[ekryski]

yes I believe so. I'll have to double check the docs. It's been a while for me.

[daffl]

Closed via #5 for implementing .patch