[Question] Check PUT payload

[matlar83]

Hi, what is the best way to check the client payload in PUT operations?

I mean: PUT operation supports partial update of the Resource. In my EventSubscriber I need to know which Resource properties were changed and get the old values.

At the moment, I simply get the 'data' attribute of the request set by the ReadListener and extract the property of interest.

Is there a more robust way?

Thank you. Matteo

[z31fbras]

You can retrieve the previous instance through the entity manager: $previousInstance = $this->entityManager->getUnitOfWork()->getOriginalEntityData($newInstance);

getOriginalEntityData returns an array though, not an object ;)

What are you trying to do? Is it to check some values before committing the changes to the database?

[matlar83]

Thank you very much for your hint, but this applies only to doctrine entities.

Yes, I need to check the values to perform some operations before committing the changes. For example, only if the client changed the user password, encode it.

Thank you

Il giorno lun 11 feb 2019 alle ore 11:11 z31fbras notifications@github.com ha scritto:

You can retrieve the previous instance through the entity manager: $previousInstance = $this->entityManager->getUnitOfWork()->getOriginalEntityData($newInstance);

getOriginalEntityData returns an array though, not an object ;)

What are you trying to do? Is it to check some values before committing the changes to the database?

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[brunoric]

Hi,

I'm also curious if this is intentional or a bug in API Platform. I would rather prefer to support partial updates in PATCH operations and keep PUT validating required fields (and other constraints) as POST operations.

I've opened this question in Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55743274/put-operations-are-accepting-requests-without-required-fields

Kind regards, Bruno

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