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Suresh
Suresh

Reputation: 151

Put or patch for new update action Rails

I want to add a new update(new_update) action in my user model of rails which will update a single column in the model. which rest api method I should use in routes file. Should I use put or patch or both. 

resources: users do
  member do 
    put 'new_update'
    patch 'new_update'
end

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3606

Answers (1)

nekogami
nekogami

Reputation: 326

If you want to match 100% with the HTTP verb definition.

PUT is supposed to overwrite your targeted resource entirely with the content in the request(all field non present in the request should be set to removed/nullified).

PATCH is supposed to only modify the fields sent in the request.

That being said, most of the time people don't make the difference and use either of them (a lot of people don't even know that there is a PATCH verb) is use PUT with the same behavior as PATCH (since the use case for PUT is quite rare on imo).

Upvotes: 4

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