Discussion: Support JSON-Patch

[JornWildt]

Should JSON-Patch be supported as an action type? Mason already have "json" + "json+files" support so it seems some what reasonable to support partial updates through JSON-Patch too.

Something like this:

"@actions": {
"update": {
"type": "json-patch",
"href": "...",
}
}

But what if we support both full updates and partial updates - should they have different action names or should we have multiple actions for the same action name (just as we can have multiple links for the same link rel)?

I think I would go for different action names, such that we get:

"@actions": {
"partial-update": {
"type": "json-patch",
"href": "...",
"method": "PATCH"
},
"update": {
"type": "json",
"href": "...",
"method": "POST"
}
}