Re: [APPS-REVIEW] review of draft-dusseault-http-patch-15

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>]

Eliot Lear wrote:
> ...
> There is precisely one key design decision in this document that seems 
> to me at all controversial:
> Is media-type the appropriate key to determine the appropriate PATCH 
> method?  Is that level of indirection correct?  This immediately limits 
> the number of PATCH methods per media-type to one, and seems to me to 
> provide a difficult route to change the PATCH method.  For example, 
> suppose patch(1) became the standard for text/plain, and a new more 
> expressive diff/patch came along.  How would that be communicated 
> between client and server?  Let's assume for the moment that using a new 
> media-type is not the best solution.
> ...

The media type of the payload of the patch request is completely 
orthogonal to the media type of the thing being patched. Yes, that means 
that we need to define one media type per patch format; but that's by 
design in HTTP, methinks.

> ...

BR, Julian