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Nacho Zve De La Torre
Asked: 2020-08-16 06:25:13 +0800 CST 2020-08-16 06:25:13 +0800 CST

What is the difference between Patch and Put verbs?

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I don't want to fill them with useless text, since the question is very clear. In college they taught me to use the verb Patch to make modifications and on the internet I see that Put is generally used. I would like someone to explain to me the difference between the two.

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2 Answers

  1. It's simple, PUT is complete replacement of the entity, PATCH only part of it

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  2. Best Answer

    Here some definitions:

    PUT is defined in Section 9.6 RFC 2616:

    The PUT method requests that the attached entity be stored under the provided request URI. If the request URI refers to an already existing resource, the attached entity SHOULD be considered a modified version of the one residing on the origin server. If the request URI does not point to an existing resource, and that URI can be defined as a new resource by the requesting user agent, the origin server can create the resource with that URI.

    PATCH is defined in RFC 5789:

    The PATCH method requests that a set of changes described in the request entity be applied to the resource identified by the Request URI.

    I share these references that will be very useful:

    PATCH & PUT

    PUT vs. PATCH

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