Pattern for updating an existing Resource?

[lukemelia]

If I get an updated JSON-API string back from the server is there a way to use it to update an existing Resource instance rather than creating a new one? I didn't see anything in the docs or code about this, so I thought I would ask how others have approached this.

[kamikat]

Resource object is designed immutable. And it can't parse a JSON to update itself I think.

[lukemelia]

@kamikat Thanks for the response. I appreciate it.

I think that I don't have a clear idea of what update patterns should look like with moshi/moshi-jsonapi.

If I have a simple form to update the name and email address of a person. And I have Person resource object, I imagined that I would call person.setName(...) and person.setEmail(...)` and then generate json from the person's document to make a PUT request to the JSON-API endpoint. I would then take the response and use it to update the person resource.

It sounds like you're saying that is not possible or recommended. How would you suggest handling this?