Hello, is there an idiomatic way of handling http patch requests in Kotlin(Ktor, etc)?

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[P A]

Hello, is there an idiomatic way of handling http patch requests in Kotlin(Ktor, etc)?

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Can you describe your problem in more detail, preferably with a code snippet?

[P A]

I don’t have a code snippet handy at this moment. I’ll share one later. The core of my questions is about how to translate a Patch request into strongly typed (data) classes. In particular, I wonder if there is a Kotlin/Ktor idiomatic way to distinguish between a field being set to null vs a field being removed from the document referenced in a the Patch request.

[P A]

One way to deal with this is to use a request format such JSON Patch. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Patch

[P A]

I wonder if there is some well know practice/pattern in Ktor or if there are Kotlin libraries to deal with the ambiguity mentioned above or is everyone just rolling their own custom solutions.

[P A]

Let me know if my question makes sense, thank you!