From d527c355d09077adac7cedb8bd3f9820e4c06512 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Hiesel <hiesel@google.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:44:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document that unknown input parameters are ignored in the
 REST API

Change-Id: I3d10eae617eeb5b5c767c0ab28753ae7a3a59d02
---
 Documentation/rest-api.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/rest-api.txt b/Documentation/rest-api.txt
index 7928512958..8e2bff66c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/rest-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rest-api.txt
@@ -78,6 +78,12 @@ Responses will be gzip compressed by the server if the HTTP
 `Accept-Encoding` request header is set to `gzip`. This may
 save on network transfer time for larger responses.
 
+[[input]]
+=== Input Format
+Unknown JSON parameters will simply be ignored by Gerrit without causing
+an exception. This also applies to case-sensitive parameters, such as
+map keys.
+
 [[timestamp]]
 === Timestamp
 Timestamps are given in UTC and have the format