Task #3655
Updated by Peter Amstutz over 9 years ago
Possible ways to improve:
* Do not include unchanged attributes in the "update" API call.
** This fixes the bug only in the cases where the user doesn't happen to edit any uneditable attributes.
* When the discovery document _does_ provide information about which fields are permitted in an update, and the user changes stuff that isn't in the schema, volunteer to omit those changes from the update.
* Have the discovery document provide information about whether fields are editable or not. Do not present the non-editable fields for editing. See #3818
** It might be desirable to _see_ those readonly attributes, though. Perhaps they could be shown in an ignored/comment block before or after the editable JSON, much like the instructions provided by "git commit"?