Safe (Interaction Model) Updates

[dennis-kuypers-gcx]

I see that there is a potential problem with InteractionModel updates. The library will drop additional properties that it doesn't know about, right?

Scenario:

• InteractionModel Get
• during deserialization properties that don't have a matching property in the models are discarded
• change InteractionModel object to include updated values
• then I do InteractionModel Update

As a result all unknown properties are lost.

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To keep additional properties the JsonExtensionDataAttribute (as i understand it) would solve this but that would require many changes and is probably prone to errors.

Currently I'm wrapping the ManagementApi so that I also have access to the authenticated http client to receive and send JToken to monkeypatch them manually.

(on a side note: I'm also using the ETag and If-Match to make sure that there are no race conditions)

[stoiveyp]

If you could raise specific issues with properties that are missing I’d rather fix the API so that we maintain strong typing - JsonExtensionData is typically used when there isn’t a formal schema.

[dennis-kuypers-gcx]

It's more of a potential problem that can occur when amazon updates the API but the library has not caught up yet. Since I'm automating changes to the interaction model this poses a problem and I just wanted to share and discuss.