What to do when you need more verbs in REST

Question

There is another similar question to mine, but the discussion veered away from the problem I\'m encounting.

Say I have a system that deals with expense reports (ER). Yo

Answer 1

What to do when you need more verbs in REST

You have 3 options:

• create a new resource and use the available HTTP methods with it to describe what you want
• check the standard, maybe you are missing an already existing method
• send a new RFC about your desired method to ietf maybe they accept it

In your case you just missed the RFC of the PATCH method by a month or two.