[Fixes #11995 Implement POST and PATCH methods for the User API

[mattiagiupponi]

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Codecov Report

Merging #12011 (26c940f) into ISSUE_11995 (023761d) will increase coverage by 0.13%. The diff coverage is 99.46%.

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