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About change 2 of the evolution space

In the example, two parameters are merged into a composite object, which is named a type change.

Research question identified

How to automatically/programmatically differentiate type changes from additions or/and removals?

The following example illustrates a case that highlights the problem of differentiating changes from additions or/and removals. Handling such a case is easy for humans but how would a machine do it?

v1.0

{
  id: 1234,
  title: "Buy groceries",
  due_date: "2020-01-01",
  due_time: "8:00"
}

v2.0 (type change)

{
  id: 1234,
  title: "Buy groceries",
  due_details: {
    due_date: "2020-01-01",
    due_time: "8:00"
  }
}

v2.0 (not type change)

{
  id: 1234,
  title: "Buy groceries",
  subtasks: [
    { 
      title: "Tomatoes",
      due_details: {
        due_date: "2020-01-01",
        due_time: "8:00"
      }
    },
    {
      title: "Ham",
      due_details: {
        due_date: "2020-01-03",
        due_time: "12:00"
      }
    }
  ]
}

This is something the currently designed approach is not able to address.

Is it its role? By not trying to make reasonings about operation parameters nor automatically fulfilling parameters value, and suggesting to generate a form that humans will fulfill, such a change is not breaking the UI.

May server-provided parameters help? As it is done in my approach to provide technical ids.