Re: Idempotent partial updates

• From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:28:25 -0800
• To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Cc: Mike Kelly <mikekelly321@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CABkgnnV0SSg2TdLVjfrSWp0JzEO5B5wMvv+6jL3diTzETy4=pg@mail.gmail.com>

I think that the "problem" in this case is one of invention only.  If
you desire the ability to do a partial update of a resource, then you
probably don't have enough resources.  I know that's a gross
generalization, but I haven't seen that comment in the thread.

I agree with Mike that PATCH (or a special POST) aren't visibly
idempotent, which is a crucial characteristic if this is going to
work.

On 27 February 2012 07:54, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> See above: (1) PUT never allowed partial updates, and (2) you don't need
>>> PUT
>>> to make modifications idempotent.

Received on Tuesday, 28 February 2012 04:28:53 UTC