How to update an enterprise to remove the association to another enterprise or person?

[lecoqlibre]

From slack message of @mkllnk: I want to update an enterprise to remove the association to another enterprise or person, do I need to set the whole list of associations except the one I want to delete? Or is there a way to delete an association without referring to the unchanged associations?

As example:

{
  "@id": "...", 
  "@type": "Enterprise",
  "affiliatedBy": ["p1", "p2"],
}

If I want to remove p1, is there any better way than a POST request without p1?

{
  "@id": "...", 
  "@type": "Enterprise",
  "affiliatedBy": ["p2"],
}

Slack Message

[lecoqlibre]

@mkllnk You should not use HTTP POST as it will create a new resource (unless you delete the old one).

Instead, depending on the LDP server configuration, you could do a HTTP PUT of PATCH. The PUT will replace the whole resource while the PATCH is able to change some values.

@simonLouvet made an example of a PATCH on a DFC CatalogItem here.

The LDP Primer show an example of PUT.

Further information can be found in the LDP recommendation.