retrofit put vs patch? What is the difficulty of always replacing the entire object?

Question

Android

As written: PUT requests replace the entire object. On the other hand, PATCH requests only send properties that have changed and ignore anything that remains the same.

And what is the difficulty of always replacing the entire object? How much different is the speed of replacing an object from the speed of replacing a single property? How big can the transferred objects be?

Answer 1

With PATCH, for example, you can make such an apishka;
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