Fix broken merge of nested arrays.

Fixes GH-2350.

spring-data-rest-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/rest/webmvc/json/DomainObjectReader.java

@@ -444,15 +444,8 @@ private void doMergeNestedMap(Map<Object, Object> source, ObjectNode node, Objec
 			TypeInformation<?> typeToMap = getTypeToMap(sourceValue, valueType);
 
 			if (value instanceof ObjectNode && sourceValue != null) {
-
 				doMerge((ObjectNode) value, sourceValue, mapper);
-
-			} else if (value instanceof ArrayNode && sourceValue != null) {
-
-				handleArray(value, sourceValue, mapper, getTypeToMap(sourceValue, typeToMap), null);
-
 			} else {
-
 				source.put(mappedKey, mapper.treeToValue(value, typeToMap.getType()));
 			}
 

spring-data-rest-webmvc/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/rest/webmvc/json/DomainObjectReaderUnitTests.java

@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ void setUp() {
 		mappingContext.getPersistentEntity(WithCustomMappedPrimitiveCollection.class);
 		mappingContext.getPersistentEntity(BugModel.class);
 		mappingContext.getPersistentEntity(ArrayListHolder.class);
+		mappingContext.getPersistentEntity(MapWrapper.class);
 		mappingContext.afterPropertiesSet();
 
 		this.entities = new PersistentEntities(Collections.singleton(mappingContext));
@@ -736,6 +737,39 @@ void arraysCanRemoveElementsDuringMerge() throws Exception {
 		assertThat(updated.array).containsExactly("ancient");
 	}
 
+	@Test // GH-2350
+	void replacesArrays() throws Exception {
+
+		ArrayHolder holder = new ArrayHolder(new String[] { "original" });
+
+		ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+
+		JsonNode node = mapper.readTree("{ \"array\" : [ \"first\", \"update\" ] }");
+		ArrayHolder result = reader.doMerge((ObjectNode) node, holder, mapper);
+
+		node = mapper.readTree("{ \"array\" : [ \"second\", \"update\" ] }");
+		result = reader.doMerge((ObjectNode) node, holder, mapper);
+
+		assertThat(result.getArray()).isEqualTo(new String[] { "second", "update" });
+	}
+
+	@Test // GH-2350
+	void replacesNestedArrays() throws Exception {
+
+		MapWrapper wrapper = new MapWrapper();
+		wrapper.map.put("array", new String[] { "original" });
+
+		ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+
+		JsonNode node = mapper.readTree("{ \"map\" : { \"array\" : [ \"first\", \"update\" ] } }");
+		MapWrapper result = reader.doMerge((ObjectNode) node, wrapper, mapper);
+
+		node = mapper.readTree("{ \"map\" : { \"array\" : [ \"second\", \"update\" ] } }");
+		result = reader.doMerge((ObjectNode) node, wrapper, mapper);
+
+		assertThat(result.map.get("array")).isEqualTo(new String[] { "second", "update" });
+	}
+
 	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
 	private static <T> T as(Object source, Class<T> type) {
 
@@ -1128,4 +1162,8 @@ public void setValues(Collection<String> values) {
 			this.values = values;
 		}
 	}
+
+	static class MapWrapper {
+		public Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
+	}
 }