PATCH a relationship with {"data":null}

[dimvic]

According to the specification issuing a PATCH request which includes a relationship with a {"data":null} body should clear the relationship, but in HydratorTrait->hydrateRelationships() this is found:

if (empty($data["relationships"])) {
    return $domainObject;
}

which results in the relationship hydrator never being called, is that intentional?

Of course one can override hydrateRelationships(), but shouldn't the defaults conform to the standards?

[kocsismate]

That's really clever! I'll look at it tomorrow!

[kocsismate]

Sorry for being late, I had other works to do during the week.

So I investigated the problem and found that you mean the updating relationships part of the spec, and I had to realize that currently, hydrators only work well when you want to update or create resources.

As we talked that hydrators need some improvement anyway, I'll try to address this deficiency in v0.11. But now, I'll release the version with your other patches! Thank you for your help :)

[dimvic]

No prob, my pleasure :) I don't have a use case this bug affects yet, I just thought it's quite an important point in the docs that should be supported, that's why I reported it...
Eagerly waiting for 0.10.2 for now!

[kocsismate]

I am closing this issue as the feature in question was implemented in #33 though it will need some small adjustments and additions. So v0.11 is not far away, I want to make it happen in 1-2 weeks!

[kocsismate]

My latest commit brings full support for this feature: b11718c

Test it if you have some time :)