Fix submission lost changes after save

src/app/core/submission/submission-json-patch-operations.service.spec.ts

@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ describe('SubmissionJsonPatchOperationsService', () => {
   const rdbService = {} as RemoteDataBuildService;
   const halEndpointService = {} as HALEndpointService;
 
+  const uuid = '91ecbeda-99fe-42ac-9430-b9b75af56f78';
+  const href = 'https://rest.api/some/self/link?with=maybe&a=few&other=parameters';
+
   function initTestService() {
     return new SubmissionJsonPatchOperationsService(
       requestService,
@@ -36,4 +39,16 @@ describe('SubmissionJsonPatchOperationsService', () => {
     expect((service as any).patchRequestConstructor).toEqual(SubmissionPatchRequest);
   });
 
+  describe(`getRequestInstance`, () => {
+    it(`should add a parameter to embed the item to the request URL`, () => {
+      const result = (service as any).getRequestInstance(uuid, href);
+      const resultURL = new URL(result.href);
+      expect(resultURL.searchParams.get('embed')).toEqual('item');
+
+      // if we delete the embed item param, it should be identical to the original url
+      resultURL.searchParams.delete('embed', 'item');
+      expect(href).toEqual(resultURL.toString());
+    });
+  });
+
 });

src/app/core/submission/submission-json-patch-operations.service.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { RequestService } from '../data/request.service';
 import { JsonPatchOperationsService } from '../json-patch/json-patch-operations.service';
 import { HALEndpointService } from '../shared/hal-endpoint.service';
 import { SubmitDataResponseDefinitionObject } from '../shared/submit-data-response-definition.model';
+import { URLCombiner } from '../url-combiner/url-combiner';
 
 /**
  * A service that provides methods to make JSON Patch requests.
@@ -26,4 +27,20 @@ export class SubmissionJsonPatchOperationsService extends JsonPatchOperationsSer
     super();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Return an instance for RestRequest class
+   *
+   * @param uuid
+   *    The request uuid
+   * @param href
+   *    The request href
+   * @param body
+   *    The request body
+   * @return Object<PatchRequestDefinition>
+   *    instance of PatchRequestDefinition
+   */
+  protected getRequestInstance(uuid: string, href: string, body?: any): SubmissionPatchRequest {
+    return new this.patchRequestConstructor(uuid, new URLCombiner(href, '?embed=item').toString(), body);
+  }
+
 }