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REST API - Examples using the merge mode

Introduction

In this article, you will find examples of the provided resource usage for different operations. For each analyzed scenario, we provide an example of the data that you are expected to provide to the API, as well as an example response.

It is possible to change the default behavior of the API to process associated data.

API merge Mode (Data merge)

Example situation: * There exists a product with two images in the database. product-id: 1 and image-id: [2, 3] * The first example overwrites the images with two new images. * The second example adds two new images.

Example request 1: (overwrite)

PUT /api/articles/1 
{
    "__options_images": {
        "replace": true
    },
    "images": {
        "112": {
            "mediaId": 112,
            "main": 1
        },
        "113": {
            "mediaId": 113,
            "main": "2"
        }
    }
}

Example request 2: (Merge)

PUT /api/articles/1 
{
    "__options_images": {
        "replace": false
    },
    "images": {
        "114": {
            "mediaId": 114,
            "main": 2
        },
        "115": {
            "mediaId": 115,
            "main": "2"
        }
    }
}

Entities implementing the "merge mode"

The following list contains all entities implementing the merge mode. The "replace" value given here represents the default value which is used when no value for replace is given in the request body.

A default value of replace: true means, that the existing entity should be overwritten, replace: false means, that the existing entities should be merged with the new ones provided in the API-request.

{
    "__options_categories": {
        "replace": true
    },
    "categories": [
        {
            "id": 13
        }
    ],
    "__options_related": {
        "replace": true
    },
    "related": [
        {
            "id": 13
        }
    ],
    "__options_similar": {
        "replace": true
    },
    "similar": [
        {
            "id": 13
        }
    ],
    "__options_downloads": {
        "replace": true
    },
    "downloads": [
        {
            "id": 13
        }
    ],
    "__options_customerGroups": {
        "replace": true
    },
    "customerGroups": [
        {
            "id": 13
        }
    ],
    "__options_images": {
        "replace": false
    },
    "images": [
        {
            "id": 13
        }
    ],
    "__options_variants": {
        "replace": true
    },
    "variants": [
        {
            "id": 13
        }
    ],
    "mainDetail": {
        "__options_prices": {
            "replace": true
        },
        "prices": []
    }
}
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