Added ability to apply patch to existing list inplace by andre161292 · Pull Request #152 · java-diff-utils/java-diff-utils · GitHub
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Motivation
I'm using java-diff-utils to update lists in JPA models from a DTOs. As Hibernate uses proxies and records any removal/add/swap, but has it's problems when using clear/addAll, this is the only option to make patching my lists work.
In older versions i accessed AbstractDelta's applyTo directly, but that fell away when it was made hidden in 3075742.
Changes
I added a the methods applyToExisting and it's opposite restoreToExisting to Patch, to make it possible to update lists in-place and updated JavaDoc accordingly.
Minor improvements
I corrected a typo in the method-name verifyAntApplyTo -> verifyAndApplyTo