Comments on: PATCH the message http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/02/patch-the-message/ Celebrating the power of the Web Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Mark Baker http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/02/patch-the-message/comment-page-1/#comment-331 Mark Baker Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:11:47 +0000 http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/02/16/patch-the-message/#comment-331 Yah, good question Mark. I actually gave this some thought during the discussions. What I realized was that PATCH is only (well, modulo the use of data-format specific diff formats that are aware of semantically meaningless changes) an optimized PUT in the case where strong etags are used (and If-Match on the PATCH request of course). Beyond that, it provides weaker guarantees about the terminal state of the resource and therefore isn't just an optimized PUT. Yah, good question Mark. I actually gave this some thought during the discussions. What I realized was that PATCH is only (well, modulo the use of data-format specific diff formats that are aware of semantically meaningless changes) an optimized PUT in the case where strong etags are used (and If-Match on the PATCH request of course). Beyond that, it provides weaker guarantees about the terminal state of the resource and therefore isn’t just an optimized PUT.

]]> By: Mark Nottingham http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/02/patch-the-message/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Mark Nottingham Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:08:32 +0000 http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/02/16/patch-the-message/#comment-330 Right. The interesting question, to me, is whether client-side toolkits will evolve to the point where they're smart enough to realise that they should PATCH when the user says to PUT -- and whether that'll be considered a feature or a bug. Given the state of client-side toolkits today, though, I think we're in for a long-ish wait before we get a good answer. Right. The interesting question, to me, is whether client-side toolkits will evolve to the point where they’re smart enough to realise that they should PATCH when the user says to PUT — and whether that’ll be considered a feature or a bug.

Given the state of client-side toolkits today, though, I think we’re in for a long-ish wait before we get a good answer.

]]> By: Sam Ruby http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/02/patch-the-message/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Sam Ruby Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:20:23 +0000 http://www.markbaker.ca/blog/2008/02/16/patch-the-message/#comment-329 s/says/will say/ and... well, DUH! :-) s/says/will say/ and… well, DUH! :-)

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