🚀 Feature: Partial List updates

[maximilianmaihoefner]

🔖 Feature description

When updating a Array-Field in a Document it would be nice if we could add and remove entries from the List without having to specify the entire List. This extends to the read and write Permissions.

In Firebase this is implemented using the FieldValue.arrayUnion and FieldValue.arrayRemove methods.

🎤 Pitch

When adding a user to the read-Permission of a Document it would be much easier to just specify the user that should be added.

appwriteDatabase.updateDocument(
        collectionId: 'collectionId',
        documentId: 'documentId',
        data: {},
        read: FieldValue.arrayUnion(['user:$memberId']),
);

Alternatively we could prefix the String we want to add or remove with +/-, but that might be limiting for Lists of other types.

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[PineappleIOnic]

Thank you for your suggestion!
We will think about this and see if we can achieve it possibly after 0.12 has been released, we will make sure to stay in contact and update you on the status of this feature request as it progresses. 🙂

[CodesbyRobot]

+1, This is super useful and necessary i believe in case of real time updates for some events (likes count/dislikes count) without having to do any check on the front side and update the entire array. Any delay on the front side means that the value on the server will be wrong.

[Vedsaga]

I guess, we should create seperate method for de-linking document in case of relationship or
or may be it could be other way around, having seperate method of partial update in that case will save from needing to change in existing update function but simply need to write new method one just do partial update to existing field