Com.webos.service.db/merge documentation error?

Platform Development
1

Attempting to use the 'merge' function to update a piece of data in the database, I get the following error back

  payload:
   { errorCode: -3969,
     errorText: 'db: kind not specified',
     returnValue: false },

Error -3969 is not documented, nor is the behavior that i'm seeing:

I was giving

{ objects: [ { id: '...', ... } ] }

which, you may spot the error: "id" should be "_id". I'm not sure why specifying a "_kind" is acceptable when not specifying an "_id". As well, it asked me to insert the rest of the schema -- was the database attempting to do a /mergePut instead of a merge? Does /merge automatically fall to /mergePut ?

I'm confused -- I'd have expected it to error that I did not supply an _id to update, but it instead errors that I did not supply a _kind.

On top of all of that -- it's looking for "_kind", not "kind", as the error message suggests.

So, the documentation could use the error message, and a lot of clarification on exactly what behavior was going on there.

2

I'd also like to point out that if you attempt to merge using an object id, and that id doesn't exist, you get back a very cryptic error: "db: kind not specified". Of course i didn't specify a kind, I specified an id.. but the id wasn't valid. :slight_smile:

3

This one looks like a slightly larger failure

# luna-send -n 1 -f luna://com.webos.service.tempdb/merge '{"props":{}}'
{
    "errorCode": 22,
    "returnValue": false,
    "errorText": "invalid parameters: caller='com.webos.lunasend-27783' error='required prop not found - 'query' for property 'props''"
}
4

not about merge, but if you attempt to pass any function looking for an "_id" a value that contains a hyphen, you get back {"errorCode":-995,"errorText":"invalid base64 data","returnValue":false}