opened 10:21PM - 11 Jan 23 UTC
enhancement
The HTTP binding currently supports GET, POST, PUT, DELETE and the related metho…d calls via [jsscripting](https://openhab.github.io/openhab-js/actions.html#.HTTP). This is missing the not often used, but sometimes critical `PATCH` method that is commonly used to make updates to a collection without replacing all it's contents.
Without this method, workarounds can sometimes be found by using POST or PUT, but these risk overwriting server-side data that OpenHAB is not aware of OR by shelling out to the O/S and using `curl` which isn't ideal.
Now that we have more featureful scripting languages like JS and Ruby etc, I expect scripting developers will be more ambitious with the types of things they can achieve. To support this, it would be ideal if HTTP could be extended to support PATCH to avoid these messy workarounds and make the Binding more complete.
