Re: [Mailman-Developers] REST API PUT versus PATCH - is there in any point in PUT and PATCH?

2015-02-18 Thread Andrew Stuart
No worries. It’s a little repetitious but doesn’t make much difference either way. On 19 Feb 2015, at 8:34 am, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Feb 19, 2015, at 08:10 AM, Andrew Stuart wrote: > Is there any actual benefit in those PUT methods? I can’t see what they > offer over the PATCH methods. PUT

Re: [Mailman-Developers] REST API PUT versus PATCH - is there in any point in PUT and PATCH?

2015-02-18 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 19, 2015, at 08:10 AM, Andrew Stuart wrote: >Is there any actual benefit in those PUT methods? I can’t see what they >offer over the PATCH methods. PUT is defined in HTTP/1.1. PATCH is (only) defined in RFC 5789, so it may not be universally supported. E.g. back in the restish days, I h

[Mailman-Developers] REST API PUT versus PATCH - is there in any point in PUT and PATCH?

2015-02-18 Thread Andrew Stuart
There are several cases in the REST API where there is a PUT method that requires all fields to be present, and also a PATCH method which is the same except that not all fields are required. Is there any actual benefit in those PUT methods? I can’t see what they offer over the PATCH methods.