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Calling toPatchInformation prior to calling patch causes patch to silently fail #2295

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Describe the bug

When calling a patch operation on an Application request, calling toPatchInformation causes the .patch(app) to not work. If true, then this probably needs either a doc update or a fix.

This does not work, but no error is thrown and the logs are clean it seems:

// DOES NOT WORK
val trequest = graphClient.applications().byApplicationId(oid)
val emptyApp = Application()
emptyApp.setNotes(s"Updated via code. ${java.time.ZonedDateTime.now()}")
trequest.toPatchRequestInformation(emptyApp)
trequest.patch(emptyApp)

but this works and the application registration is changed

// WORKS
val trequest = graphClient.applications().byApplicationId(oid)
val emptyApp = Application()
emptyApp.setNotes(s"Updated via code. ${java.time.ZonedDateTime.now()}")
//trequest.toPatchRequestInformation(emptyApp)
trequest.patch(emptyApp)

This may be related to something not idempotent and there is some hidden state somewhere.

OTEL logging suggest that the only difference in calling is that the following is called twice when including the toPatchRequestInformation prior to patch. patch also calls toPatchRequestInformation as well. However,
it looks like creating RequestInformation is idempotent...hmm...

// this is the only difference in the trace which is expected since setContentFromParsable is called when toPatchRequestInformation is called.
[otel.javaagent 2025-02-09 16:38:49:625 -0500] [main] INFO io.opentelemetry.exporter.logging.LoggingSpanExporter - 'setContentFromParsable' : ace455a22586ba518b85e4a1b307630d b731da65e1939a46 INTERNAL [tracer: com.microsoft.kiota:] AttributesMap{data={thread.id=1, com.microsoft.kiota.request.type=com.microsoft.graph.models.Application, thread.name=main}, capacity=128, totalAddedValues=3}
[otel.javaagent 2025-02-09 16:38:49:625 -0500] [main] INFO io.opentelemetry.exporter.logging.LoggingSpanExporter - 'setContentFromParsable' : 9e931b04f0305f0ef5df1bb3a8b59f78 30a5455e58f3fb17 INTERNAL [tracer: com.microsoft.kiota:] AttributesMap{data={thread.id=1, com.microsoft.kiota.request.type=com.microsoft.graph.models.Application, thread.name=main}, capacity=128, totalAddedValues=3}

Expected behavior

The patch works even if toPatchRequestInformation is called prior to calling patch.

How to reproduce

SDK Version

6.x, latest

Latest version known to work for scenario above?

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Known Workarounds

None

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