Permanent Redirect for old URL missing via API or no documentation

Preconditions

1. Magento 2.2.5
2. PHP 7.0.30

Steps to reproduce

1. POST a request for a product via REST API: V1/products/
   {"product":{"sku": "703","custom_attributes":[{"attribute_code":"url_key","value":"new-url"}, {"attribute_code":"url_key_create_redirect","value":1}, {"attribute_code":"save_rewrites_history","value":1}]}}

Expected result

1. Product URL changes to domain/new-url
2. Accessing the old url redirects to the new url

Actual result

1. Product URL changes to domain/new-url
2. Accessing the old url returns a 404 error page

I've been reading the Swagger documentation back can't find any information on creating 301 via REST when the product URL is changed.

[magento-engcom-team]

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[engcom-backlog-nickolas]

Hello @vegangirlthatcodes, thank you for your report.
We've acknowledged the issue and added to our backlog.

Any update on this issue? We have to manually create the redirects since this is causing a lot of SEO problems.

Thank you!

[lewisvoncken]

@vegangirlthatcodes
You can use the following temporary solution:

create a Product Attribute save_rewrites_history and fill it through the api with the value 1 as a custom attribute and then it will create a new redirect.

            $eavSetup = $this->eavSetupFactory->create(['setup' => $setup]);
            $eavSetup->addAttribute(
            \Magento\Catalog\Model\Product::ENTITY,
            'save_rewrites_history',
            [
                'type' => 'int',
                'backend' => '',
                'frontend' => '',
                'label' => 'save_rewrites_history',
                'input' => 'boolean',
                'class' => '',
                'source' => '',
                'global' => 1,
                'visible' => true,
                'required' => true,
                'user_defined' => true,
                'default' => null,
                'searchable' => false,
                'filterable' => false,
                'comparable' => false,
                'visible_on_front' => false,
                'used_in_product_listing' => false,
                'unique' => false,
                'apply_to' => '',
                'system' => 1,
                'group' => 'General',
                'option' => array('values' => array(""))
            ]
        );

[lewisvoncken]

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