frol/flask-restplus-server-example

Would be good to have examples for UPDATE and PUT as well as PATCH

bitfinity opened this issue · 2 comments

bitfinity commented

For those who don't want to use PATCH (or their front-end developers don't want to use it.)
[Capitalization is not intended as yelling...referring to the REST operations).

frol commented

I know PUT method, but what do you refer to with UPDATE (there is no such HTTP method)?

I think there is nothing particularly different from POST implementation (just use put method name instead of post, and handle the received data (merge with existing record or create new if that is not exist). To be honest, I have never used PUT (haven't faced it's need).

I will gladly review and accept PRs showing the use of PUT and UPDATE (whatever that means)!

bitfinity commented

Oh - sorry - you're right there is no UPDATE method. I guess people use POST with partial, but I don't like the idea of overloading POST like that. Thanks - PUT seems pretty simple.