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Java Spring with Hibernate File Uploads and Entity Updates in Spring + Hibernate Updating Categories: Part 2

Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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Should the HTTP method be ‘put’ for editing a category?

Just curious about when we use the other HTTP methods. It seems to be always POST or GET. I thought PUT was for updating a resource, which is what we seemed to be doing. Do some people just stick with POST and GET 100% of the time?

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stjarnan
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Hi Brendan! I'm not sure if some people just stick to GET and POST, it's possible I suppose. But to answer your question, if you want to edit and replace something, PUT is what you want.

Here is a link if you would like to read more: http://www.restapitutorial.com/lessons/httpmethods.html

J llama
J llama
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J llama
J llama
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what a horrible tutorial lol has us not using put for editing db data