RFE: Add PATCH to the list of the supported HTTP methods

[James Roper]

I don't have any opinion on the matter, but a datapoint to the popularity
of PATCH is its use in the GitHub API:

https://developer.github.com/v3/

GitHub is often looked to as a gold standard for how to write a REST API,
so if they do it, it's likely that many others do too.

On 7 March 2018 at 05:40, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrej,
>
> On 02/03/18 08:28, Andrej Golovnin wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> it would be nice if could add PATCH
>> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5789) to the list of the supported
>> ...
>> - and one for the HTTP Client branch in the JDK sandbox repository
>> which adds PATCH to the HttpRequest builder:
>>    java_net_http_HttpRequest_PATCH_method.diff
>>
>
> The JDK HTTP Client has:
>   `HttpRequest.Builder::method(String method, BodyPublisher publisher)`
>
>  ,so it is currently possible to use the `PATCH` method.
>
> Is `PATCH` sufficiently popular to warrant its own self-named
> method in the request builder?
>
> -Chris.
>



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