How do I update an OData entity and modify its navigation properties in one request?

Question

I am trying to implement what I thought was a simple scenario using an OData service provided by WCF Data services (using the OData V3 application/json;odata=verbose payload

Answer 1

Pratik's comment was the answer (Pratik if you'd like to repost this as an answer, I'll mark it as such - thanks!):

Question: Do you want to update the category instance or do you want to update some of the properties of the category instance. There is no way to do the later other than batch. For the former, you can do something like: { "Name" : "new name", "Category" : { "__metadata" : { "uri" : "/api.svc/Categories(2)" }}}. Hope this helps. – Pratik