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.hega...@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. > -- *James Roper* *Senior Octonaut* Lightbend <https://www.lightbend.com/> – Build reactive apps! Twitter: @jroper <https://twitter.com/jroper>
