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		Joker_vD on Sept 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Elements of APIs (2021) > You use GET for retrieving, POST for creating, PATCH for updating, and DELETE for deleting. Surely that should be "PUT for creating, POST for updating"? PUT is a standard verb, defined in every version of the HTTP/1.1 spec starting since RFC 2616, after all, unlike PATCH which is still just a "proposed" standard.

Mainsail on Sept 5, 2024 | [–]

For reference, the author touched on their reasoning at the bottom of "Many nouns, few verbs"

https://johnholdun.com/apis/verbs/

lelandfe on Sept 5, 2024 | [–]

Huh, TIL that PATCH isn't an accepted standard: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5789

14 years on, I wonder what the hold up is.

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