Property mapping failure fails silently

[bobpardoe]

When PATCHing via rest and passing an invalid column name in the Json body, the save fails silently.

doMerge() in DomainObjectReader class of spring-data-rest-webmvc-2.5.2.RELEASE.jar

Has the following

 if (!mappedProperties.hasPersistentPropertyForField(fieldName)) {
                i.remove();
                continue;
}

Would it not be better for some sort of mapping exception to be raised?

Nothing is written to the console or exception raised. Just a 204 is returned (I am intentionally not returning the updated row).

This makes it impossible for the client to determine if the PATCH / PUT update was successful or not.