PATCH vs PUT

[hedder]

Of.spec claims to send PATCH request to update existing records instead of PUT.
It also says that only updated attributes/relationships should be sent.

Updating a Resource's Attributes
PATCH /articles/1 HTTP/1.1

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Also, it could significantly decrease amount of data we're sending to the back-end.

+1, PUT is not part of the jsonapi.org spec: http://jsonapi.org/faq/#wheres-put

[mkalpana]

+1. PATCH should be used for updating existing records instead of PUT

[yves-s]

Yes, it would be nice to see a patch method. We just hacked a patch methode in the build file to fulfill the jsonapi.org requirements and update relations.