How to update a @ManyToOne relationship with Spring Data REST?

Question

I use Spring Data REST with JPA. I have a User entity that has a many to one relationship with another called AccountStatus modeled in a separate RDBMS table. The JSON represent

Answer 1

It really depends if you have an exported repository for AccountState. If you do you can update your account state with a PATCH against /users/{id}:

{
    "accountState": "http://localhost:8080/accountStates/2"
}

So you are using the URI of your account state to reference the resource to assign