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Code	Display	Definition
read	read	Read the current state of the resource.
vread	vread	Read the state of a specific version of the resource.
update	update	Update an existing resource by its id (or create it if it is new).
update-conditional	update-conditional	Update an existing resource based on some identification criteria (or create it if it is new).
patch	patch	Update an existing resource by posting a set of changes to it.
patch-conditional	patch-conditional	Update an existing resource, based on some identification criteria, by posting a set of changes to it.
delete	delete	Delete a resource.
delete-conditional-single	delete-conditional-single	Delete a single resource based on some identification criteria.
delete-conditional-multiple	delete-conditional-multiple	Delete one or more resources based on some identification criteria.
delete-history	delete-history	Delete all historical versions of a resource.
delete-history-version	delete-history-version	Delete a specific version of a resource.
history-instance	history-instance	Retrieve the change history for a particular resource.
history-type	history-type	Retrieve the change history for all resources of a particular type.
create	create	Create a new resource with a server assigned id.
create-conditional	create-conditional	Create a new resource with a server assigned id if an equivalent resource does not already exist.
search-type	search-type	Search all resources of the specified type based on some filter criteria.