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Q. must a PATCH upsert that creates a new resource return 201 Created and Location header?

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It seems logical/implied, by the ideas that PATCH will have create semantics when it allows upsert semantics (same as PUT), and a similar clause that exists for POST - that if POST creates a resource it should return 201 created and a Location header.

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