Using PATCH method for modify operations.

Some modify operations have been modified to use HTTP PATCH method
since the request only contains changes to the resource, not the
entire resource. To replace the entire resource, separate replace
operations using HTTP PUT method will be used instead. The Backbone
library is using the same convention by default.

Ticket #654

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/base/common/src/com/netscape/certsrv/user/UserResource.java b/base/common/src/com/netscape/certsrv/user/UserResource.java
index 19db939dd..90b46ef60 100644
--- a/base/common/src/com/netscape/certsrv/user/UserResource.java
+++ b/base/common/src/com/netscape/certsrv/user/UserResource.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
 import javax.ws.rs.DELETE;
 import javax.ws.rs.GET;
 import javax.ws.rs.POST;
+import javax.ws.rs.PUT;
 import javax.ws.rs.Path;
 import javax.ws.rs.PathParam;
 import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ import org.jboss.resteasy.annotations.ClientResponseType;
 
 import com.netscape.certsrv.acls.ACLMapping;
 import com.netscape.certsrv.authentication.AuthMethodMapping;
+import com.netscape.certsrv.base.PATCH;
 
 /**
  * @author Endi S. Dewata
@@ -63,7 +65,14 @@ public interface UserResource {
     @Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
     public UserData getUser(@PathParam("userID") String userID);
 
-    @POST
+    @PUT
+    @Path("{userID}")
+    @ClientResponseType(entityType=UserData.class)
+    @Consumes({ MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
+    @Produces({ MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })
+    public Response replaceUser(@PathParam("userID") String userID, UserData userData);
+
+    @PATCH
     @Path("{userID}")
     @ClientResponseType(entityType=UserData.class)
     @Consumes({ MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON })