Error while making a PATCH method call

I was looking to send atomic updates to my server and in doing so required a PATCH call to be made. But the server returned the following error to the client (with errorhandler on).

{
  "name": "GeneralError",
  "message": "column \"id\" does not exist",
  "code": 500,
  "className": "general-error",
  "data": {},
  "errors": {}
}

Without errorhandler this was the error printed on the server console.

SequelizeBaseError: column "id" does not exist                                                                                     
    at Query.formatError (D:\code\playground\core-playground\feathers\node_modules\sequelize\lib\dialects\postgres\query.js:357:14)
    at Query.<anonymous> (D:\code\playground\core-playground\feathers\node_modules\sequelize\lib\dialects\postgres\query.js:88:19) 

Now I was able to make GET PUT calls to the server no problem. But it’s only during PATCH is when I’m facing this issue. And I am a bit confused sue to that reason, because PUT must take similar arguments as PATCH.

Any way to diagnose it further?

One possibility is that my primary key in the resource is not named id rather custom named as xyz_id, if this is the issue in fact then any way I can use a hook to pre-process the data and make the patch method work? And also shouldn’t this simply work out of the box given the id is already present in the URL to which the call is made /db/:resource/:id and there should be no reliance on the primary key being named id.

[daffl]

I still think using the primary key of the model as the id property by default is a valuable change. So let’s keep this open.

[daffl]

I think the reason is that get, update and remove use findById where patch does not. We’ll need a way to get the name of the primary key field from the model and then use that for patch as well.