Partial updates

[eduard93]

Currently old RESTForms supports partial object updates.
For example you have a person object: { _id: 1, Name: Alice, Location: London}
You can send a PUT request { _id:1, Location: Wonderland} and it would update the object to:
{ _id: 1, Name: Alice, Location: Wonderland}.

Note that the Name stayed the same (so it's not NULL).

[eduard93]

Validate that new RESTForms supports this workflow

[isc-afuentes]

%JSONImport() method allows importing data using different mappings.

• A user could define different mappings to import or export data (e.g. a mapping which considers only a subset of the properties of the object).
• Pull request Object CRUD using %JSON.Adaptor mappings #8 introduces a first multiple mapping support using class parameters.

However, we should consider if we must use PUT /form/object/:class/:id for a full update, and PATCH /form/object/:class/:id for partial updates.

[eduard93]

Is there a need for a full update?
I'd say PUT with partial update is enough.