Question about components

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Hello friends, I have a question about components:

I created a content type using components to reuse the data.

Account:

{
  "data": {
		"personalInfo": {
			"firstName": "John",
			"lastName": "Doe",
			"fullName": "John Doe"
		},
		"contactInfo": {
			"email": "johndoe@emme.ly",
			"phone": "1111112",
			"additionalPhone": "2222221"
		},
		"addressInfo": {
			"address": "Chapman Rd.",
			"complement": "260",
			"zipCode": "36445",
			"state": "Frisco",
			"city": "AL"
		}
  }
}

Where the components are, personalInfo, contactInfo and addressInfo.

POST works correctly.

But when I need to use PUT without updating all fields, it returns null.

{
  "data": {
		"personalInfo": {
			"fullName": "John Doe"
		},
		"contactInfo": {
			"email": "johndoe@emme.ly",
			"phone": "1111112",
			"additionalPhone": "2222221"
		},
		"addressInfo": {
			"address": "Chapman Rd.",
			"complement": "260",
			"zipCode": "36445",
			"state": "Frisco",
			"city": "AL"
		}
  }
}

Return:

{
	"data": {
		"id": 20,
		"blocked": false,
		"slug": "6b634de9-026c-4830-ac81-bdd0cb059da5",
		"createdAt": "2022-12-13T17:30:42.479Z",
		"updatedAt": "2022-12-13T17:35:24.335Z",
		"locale": "en",
		"personalInfo": {
			"id": 26,
			"firstName": null,
			"lastName": null,
			"fullName": "John Doe"
		},
		"contactInfo": {
			"id": 22,
			"email": "johndoe@emme.ly",
			"phone": "1111112",
			"additionalPhone": "2222221"
		},
		"addressInfo": {
			"id": 45,
			"address": "Chapman Rd.",
			"complement": "260",
			"zipCode": "36445",
			"city": "AL",
			"state": "Frisco",
			"gate": null,
			"latitude": null,
			"longitude": null
		}
	},
	"meta": {}
}

Note that I didn’t pass firstName and lastName from the personalInfo component because as it’s a PUT I only really want to update what I need.

My doubts are:

  • Is this behavior normal? From what I’ve read in the documentation, if you don’t pass the ID of the component it recreates the data, I think that’s why it’s returning as null;
  • Is there any simple solution for this, for me to pass only the fields that need to be updated and change only him?

Thank you all.