How to update reference object in Spring-data rest?

Question

Example: class Course and Teacher having many-to-one relationship, how to change teacher for a certain course via Spring-data rest?

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Answer 1

Using httpie PATCH instead of PUT works for me:

http PATCH :7070/study-spring-data/course/2 teacher="http://localhost:7070/study-spring-data/teacher/2"

Again, this does not work with PUT.