Micropub Update Parsing Uncertainties
Henrique Dias
November 5, 2021
I am creating a new Micropub endpoint for my website and I read the specification. However, while testing the update action, something unexpected happened. The specification is not quite clear to whether we should deeply-traverse the update and update field by field, or solely replace the top-level keys. Take into account the following post (taken from the specification): { "type": ["h-entry"], "properties": { "summary": [ "Weighed 70.64 kg" ], "weight": [ { "type": ["h-measure"], "properties": { "num": ["70.64"], "unit": ["kg"] } } ] } } What happens with the following update request? { "action": "update", "url": "https://example.com/weight", "replace": { "weight": [ { "properties": { "unit": ["lbs"] } } ] } } Should the Micropub endpoint recursively traverse the fields and check if they exist and if so, update it? Or should it simply replace the top level weight field? I am asking this because I was testing with a checkin locally, and I used OwnYourSwarm which provides a lot of detailed fields. Then, I used micropublish to update that post, and most of the fields of the checkin were gone because I was simply replacing the top-level fields. Is anyone aware of what should happen?
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