Issue #2821077 by Wim Leers, dawehner, tedbow, amateescu, tstoeckler, alexpott: PATCHing entities validates the entire entity, also unmodified fields, so unmodified fields can throw validation errors

(cherry picked from commit 73769ef5)

Issue #2938035 by Wim Leers, alexpott: When PATCHing a field is disallowed, no reason is given for *why* this happens

Issue #2934520 by tstoeckler: Avoid information disclosure by timing attack in EntityResource::patch()

Issue #2824851 by Wim Leers, arshadcn, amateescu, effulgentsia, tedbow, timmillwood, cburschka, tstoeckler, Berdir, xjm, catch: EntityResource::patch() makes an incorrect assumption about entity keys, hence results in incorrect behavior

Issue #2929124 by Wim Leers, tstoeckler: Remove EntityResource::getCastedValueFromFieldItemList() helper in favor of FieldItemList::equals()

Issue #2765959 by davidwbarratt, Wim Leers, dawehner, borisson_, tstoeckler, tedbow, catch: Make 4xx REST responses cacheable by (Dynamic) Page Cache + comprehensive cacheability test coverage

Revert "Issue #2824851 by Wim Leers, arshadcn, amateescu, tedbow, timmillwood, Berdir, tstoeckler: EntityResource::patch() makes an incorrect assumption about entity keys, hence results in incorrect behavior"

This reverts commit 3b3daa35.

Issue #2824851 by Wim Leers, arshadcn, amateescu, tedbow, timmillwood, Berdir, tstoeckler: EntityResource::patch() makes an incorrect assumption about entity keys, hence results in incorrect behavior

Issue #2293697 by Wim Leers, dawehner, Jo Fitzgerald, clemens.tolboom, vedpareek, tedbow, Munavijayalakshmi, hchonov, alexpott, effulgentsia, tstoeckler, Crell, klausi, EclipseGc: EntityResource POST routes all use the confusing default: use entity types' https://www.drupal.org/link-relations/create link template if available

Issue #2848927 by Wim Leers, alexpott: EntityResource::addLinkHeaders() should use LinkRelationType plugin instances rather than definitions

Issue #2853211 by vaplas, Wim Leers, arshadcn: EntityResource::post() incorrectly assumes that every entity type has a canonical URL

Issue #2776975 by joelpittet, dawehner, tim.plunkett, xjm, pfrenssen: March 3, 2017: Convert core to array syntax coding standards for Drupal 8.3.x RC phase

Issue #2751325 by damiankloip, Grayside, dawehner, Wim Leers, catch, tedbow, alexpott, himanshu-dixit, Jo Fitzgerald, xjm, andrewbelcher, skyredwang, effulgentsia, hampercm, eelkeblok: All serialized values are strings, should be integers/booleans when appropriate

Issue #2808233 by gnuget, dawehner, Wim Leers, tedbow, Chi, dysrama: REST 403 responses don't tell the user *why* access is not granted: requires deep Drupal understanding to figure out

Issue #2113345 by dawehner, tedbow, Wim Leers, kristiaanvandeneynde, Crell, Grayside, klausi: Define a mechanism for custom link relationships

Issue #2789315 by amateescu, timmillwood, claudiu.cristea, sandervd, GroovyCarrot, catch, Wim Leers, Berdir, pfrenssen, twistor, xjm: Create EntityPublishedInterface and use for Node and Comment

Issue #2815063 by leeotzu, shruti1803, minakshiPh, lomasr, Yogesh Pawar, Chi: Typo in EntityResource::delete()

Issue #2794735 by harings_rob: Wrong documentation on Drupal\rest\Plugin\rest\resource\EntityResource

Issue #2291055 by marthinal, tedbow, Wim Leers, kylebrowning, m1r1k, clemens.tolboom, jlbellido, vivekvpandya, snehal.brahmbhatt, dawehner, klausi, droti, alexpott, cloudbull, Berdir, heykarthikwithu, claudiu.cristea: REST resources for anonymous users: register

Issue #2664780 by Wim Leers, tedbow, dawehner, klausi: Remove REST's resource- and verb-specific permissions for EntityResource, but provide BC and document why it's necessary for other resources

Revert "Issue #2664780 by Wim Leers, tedbow, dawehner, klausi: Remove REST's resource- and verb-specific permissions for EntityResource, but provide BC and document why it's necessary for other resources"

This reverts commit 85d755a9.

Issue #2664780 by Wim Leers, tedbow, dawehner, klausi: Remove REST's resource- and verb-specific permissions for EntityResource, but provide BC and document why it's necessary for other resources

Issue #2308745 by Alumei, dawehner, Wim Leers, larowlan, Arla, alexpott, g.oechsler, R.Muilwijk, Berdir, catch, klausi, clemens.tolboom, MattA, Crell: Remove rest.settings.yml, use rest_resource config entities

Issue #2724823 by tedbow, dawehner, Wim Leers, clemens.tolboom: EntityResource: read-only (GET) support for configuration entities

Issue #2631774 by Wim Leers, marthinal, dawehner, tedbow, tyler.frankenstein, gabesullice, valthebald: Impossible to update Comment entity with REST (HTTP PATCH): bundle field not allowed to be updated, but EntityNormalizer::denormalize() requires it

Issue #2626298 by marthinal, borisson_, Wim Leers, dawehner: REST module must cache only responses to GET requests

Issue #2719695 by alexpott, Mile23: Fix 'Drupal.Classes.ClassDeclaration.CloseBraceAfterBody' coding standard

Issue #2665992 by alexpott, klausi, heykarthikwithu, xjm, tstoeckler: @file is not required for classes, interfaces and traits

Issue #2696919 by chgasparoto, snehi: EntityResource annotation class has @see after plugin annotation

Issue #2485683 by Wim Leers: REST entity resource missing entity & field access cacheability metadata

Issue #2571929 by klausi: REST entity POST request is not cacheable: cacheability metadata is unnecessary

Issue #2546216 by fortis, edutrul, -enzo-: Return entity object in REST response body after successful POST

Issue #2418587 by xjm, marthinal, AjitS, Wim Leers, neilmc, Berdir: Set entity values to NULL instead of using unset() method: unset() is misleading

Issue #2554873 by samuel.mortenson: Log message in Drupal\rest\Plugin\rest\resource\EntityResource::patch() missing Entity ID

Issue #2351015 by plach, effulgentsia, Wim Leers, dawehner, martin107, damiankloip, cilefen, Fabianx, catch, pwolanin, Damien Tournoud, znerol, YesCT, larowlan: URL generation does not bubble cache contexts