REST updating a resource

26 Jan 2019   •architecture

Approaches

• Expose a field, filter. Source: https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/standard_methods#list

  Real-word example: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects.instances/list

• RFC 7396, the JSON Merge Patch format

  https://williamdurand.fr/2014/02/14/please-do-not-patch-like-an-idiot/