Incorrect formatting of data for PATCH requests

[ElDeveloper]

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Several of the PATCH requests in Qiita are sending data via the request's arguments, whereas the standard expects that the data be sent via the body of the request as JSON.

[antgonza]

Thanks. Just to better classify this issue, what are the implications of this?

[ElDeveloper]

One possible implication (which I found in #2649) was that the data could possibly be mangled.

On (Aug-28-18|16:47), Antonio Gonzalez wrote:

Thanks. Just to better classify this issue, what are the implications of this?

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[antgonza]

Mangle how? Like it will not work?

[ElDeveloper]

Perhaps mangle was an overstatement. Yes, one of my values was being parsed as a list even though the client was transmitting a single string. The data was not wrong but it should have not been transformed into a list.