ASP.NET MVC has had UpdateModel and TryUpdateModel allowing partial model to be received by the method and update only relevant parts of the model.
That has been missing in the ASP.NET Web API. In the case of a PATCH, this feature will be very handy.
Comments: We plan to support this through the OData extension package. Please see [1] for more information about this package in general. Henrik [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alexj/archive/2012/08/15/odata-support-in-asp-net-web-api.aspx
That has been missing in the ASP.NET Web API. In the case of a PATCH, this feature will be very handy.
Comments: We plan to support this through the OData extension package. Please see [1] for more information about this package in general. Henrik [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alexj/archive/2012/08/15/odata-support-in-asp-net-web-api.aspx