https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=29157 Bug ID: 29157 Summary: REST API - cannot update patron & leave date_of_birth null Change sponsored?: --- Product: Koha Version: 21.05 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P5 - low Component: REST API Assignee: koha-bugs@lists.koha-community.org Reporter: ephetteplace@cca.edu Created attachment 125644 --> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/attachment.cgi?id=125644&action=edit diff of patron record after REST PUT action I noticed when trying to update patrons with a Python script that Koha set everyone's birthday to the current date. For each patron, I sent a Python dict where patron['date_of_birth'] was None (Python's null value). I can send an ISO 8601 date and DOB updates appropriately but I cannot find a way to leave the date empty, which is desirable (we don't care about age). Here's what I tried: date_of_birth = '' (empty string) date_of_birth = "null" date_of_birth = "undef" All these receive the same formatting error response: 400 Response {'errors': [{'message': '/anyOf/0 Does not match date format.', 'path': '/body/date_of_birth'}], 'status': 400} As I said, setting birthdate to None (which translates to `null` in JSON) updates the DOB to the current date, which I don't think makes sense since it's a nullable field in the database. I'll attach a diff of a minimal test patron where I added a "1" to their cardnumber and did nothing else. The steps were: - create a minimal patron record (e.g. with email, userid, names) - HTTP GET $API/patrons/username=$USERNAME (I did not test HTTP GET $API/patrons/$BORROWERNUMBER but I assume it works the same) - update cardnumber e.g. patron['cardnumber'] = patron['cardnumber'] + 1 - PUT $API/patrons/$BORROWERNUMBER with json=patron A few fields other than cardnumber changed. Both last_seen and updated_on make sense, I find it odd date_renewed was set to the current date since I was not renewing the patron but that's at least not problematic in our use case. It's the DOB I'd like to avoid updating, though. Let me know if I can provide more example data. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.