The Promiscuity of PUT
From Single-Document Updates to Multiple-Document Mayhem When creating or supporting HTTP APIs for database operations, the technique is to connect HTTP methods to database operations. The widely accepted mapping is as follows: GET: Find POST : Insert/Create PUT: Update DELETE: Delete/Remove (Unless you’ve adopted GraphQL, in which case, what in Middle-earth?!) In general, everyone agrees on how POST, GET, and DELETE operations are supposed to behave. There isn’t much room for ambiguity there....