On 24/05/2012, at 10:06 PM, Brian Waldon wrote: > > On May 24, 2012, at 4:12 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > >> The other limitation is having defined and registered patch formats. The IETF is currently working on one for JSON; it should be progressing soon. <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-json-patch> > > I guess I haven't done enough research on PATCH, as I hadn't discovered this yet. I was just planning on using the method to be more semantically correct: allowing requests with a content-type of application/json and a partial representation of an entity. Is there anything about PATCH that would disallow that? Yes, very much so. See: http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=5789 Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/