Null - When creating a PATCH route in an API, how do you prefer modeling the request body? I need to distinguish between "set this field" and "do nothing to this field", and it gets awkward when dealing with optional values (null vs. field missing).

1:29am PDT - April 17th, 2021

When creating a PATCH route in an API, how do you prefer modeling the request body? I need to distinguish between "set this field" and "do nothing to this field", and it gets awkward when dealing with optional values (null vs. field missing).

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