OData

My main project is using OData a lot and one of the requirements was to ensure that certain properties should not be updatable via PATCH - this is to ensure the integrity of the object e.g. audit fields should not be changeable post-hoc.

There’s a couple of possibilities, depending on your use case…

1. You want to exclude the changes if they are supplied
2. You want to throw an error if non-editable fields are updated.

The way we approached this was to start with an attribute