Trying to understand JSON…
Meme transcription: Panel 1. Two images of JSON, one is the empty object, one is an object in which the key name maps to the value null. Caption: “Corporate needs you to find the difference between this picture and this picture” Panel 2. The Java backend dev answers, “They’re the same picture.”
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paholgname field.
Only if using JSON merge patch, and that’s the only time it’s acceptable. But JSON patch should be preferred over JSON merge patch anyway.
Servers should accept both null and undefined for normal request bodies, and clients should treat both as the same in responses. API designers should not give each bespoke semantics.
That’s what the If-Match header is for. It prevents this problem.
That being said, I generally think PUTs are preferable to PATCHes for simplicity.
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