Clearing a to-many relationship in a "normal" patch

[TristanKobalt]

I am trying to update a value on a resource, and clear a to-many relationship at the same time like so:

api.update('my-resource', { id: 1, my-field: 'new value', my-to-many-relationship: [] });

However, the my-to-many-relationship is not being recognized as a relationship in this case. Am I doing something wrong? I would like this operation to remain atomical.

Thanks in advance!

[wopian]

Should be fixed now in 10.0.0-alpha.10.

For 9.x and earlier, there is no possible fix as there is nothing to distinguish a null/[] attribute and a null/[] relationship.

Note that in 10.x (see Migration Guide#link-objects), relationships are now always objects with a data object/array.

api.update('my-resource', { 
  id: 1, 
  my_field: 'new value', 
  my_to_many_relationship: { data: [] },
  my_to_one_relationship: { data: null }
});