More on PUT Idempotency

This has been a hot topic in my world this week. I have a couple of colleagues with whom I have been having very good discussions (in the context of two totally separate projects) and I wanted to capture one particularly interesting thread here. One of those conversations was started with a reference to a […]

Why PUT can’t be used for partial updates

I’ve been discussing PUT vs. PATCH with some colleagues and finally took the time to come up with a concrete example of why PUT absolutely should not be used for partial updates of resources. One colleague pointed out the following points made by Roy Fielding on the AtomPub listserv: FWIW, PUT does not mean store. […]