PATCH identity fails with "name is must be unique" about ziti HOT 8 CLOSED

Need steps to reproduce, please? There's not quite enough information here. Just looking at this it seems correct, kenneth_bingham-laptop already exists. Seems fine

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I was attempting to update the role attributes on this identity and sent the same value for the name field as was already assigned. If I don't send the name field the error is "name is required".

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Before the PATCH request shown, which attempts to replace current attributes with only sandbox, the only role attribute on that identity shown in the list from ziti CLI is defaultRouters.

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Try removing the name. I think in a patch you only send what changed

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If I don't send the name field the error is "name is required".

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Works with CLI v0.15.1 against the same controller where I observed the error.

❯ ziti edge list identities 'name="kenneth_bingham-laptop"'
id: c2b4dcd4-7295-4932-b293-5af06d2e0c14    name: kenneth_bingham-laptop    type: Device    role attributes: ["defaultRouters"]
results: 1-1 of 1

❯ ziti edge update identity kenneth_bingham-laptop --role-attributes sandbox

❯ ziti edge list identities 'name="kenneth_bingham-laptop"'
id: c2b4dcd4-7295-4932-b293-5af06d2e0c14    name: kenneth_bingham-laptop    type: Device    role attributes: ["sandbox"]

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Chatted with Paul who tested it on 0.15.1 via the CLI and he reported no issue. I tested it against 0.15.1 via Postman and encountered no issue.

My personal tests were:

1. create an identity named "a' w/ role attributes
2. patch identity named "a" with name = "b' - worked, updated name to "b"
3. patch identity named "b" w/ current name and new role attributes - worked, the name stayed the same, new attributes
4. patch identity named "b" with only new role attributes - worked, new attributes, the name stayed the same
5. patched identity name "b" with only name "a" - worked, renamed to "a"

I am inclined to close this issue.

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The problem was that I was unintentionally renaming the identity to a name that was not unique.

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