Florian Fendt

Hi @w4tsn, Thanks for this very detailed issue. It's a nice catch and I was able to reproduce this issue thanks to your description. With a bit of googling I...

Just a thought about the history of things and the policy enforcement for it: Do I want the user to only see history of a thing from timestamp x to...

From my point of view, the desired properties already are the "delta" (or diff/patch). Moreover, the device knows best how to calculate the delta (if it even needs one) for...

Imho we should never clear the desired state automatically and leave this to the device itself. It would be convenient to just return the diff between the reported and desired...

As far as I understand #696, the desired section is especially meant (and useful) for configuration values (in contrast to measured values). Like in the above example the `target-temperature`. If...

Maybe it would be sufficient to have the configuration in a way in which Ditto doesn't have to interpret a whole lot into possible use-cases, but just its default use...

Actually I meant that we don't do anything when a new value comes and the user can decide if he/she wants to use our default API to delete a desired...

I agree that it would be nice to have some convenience, but in my opinion we should start as simple as possible. Time will tell how the feature is used...

Just saw, that there is already a PR (#2453) fixing this issue. Don't know how I missed it before adding a PR on my own. I'd suggest to wait until...

That sounds like a nice feature! With the suggested implementation, would it also be possible to have something like an `all-parameters` flag? It would allow to expand all parameters into...