ah but the "The PUT method replaces all current representations of the target resource with the request payload." means you can't pass in just 1 field like: cu

ah but the "The PUT method replaces all current representations of the target resource with the request payload." means you can't pass in just 1 field like: curl -XPUT -H "Authorization: Bearer token" \ -H "Content-Type: json" \ http://localhost:8080/thing -d '{"state": "some_string"}' instead of just "state" and some_string in example above for a PUT you'd have 10 other fields right? But a PATCH, a PATCH could have just that one field. i.e. "PATCH method applies partial modifications"