fix($http): remove support for PATCH + better whenXXX, expectXXX api

- there are too many unknowns about PATCH, so I'm dropping its support until we know that this is actually useful
- expectGET, expectHEAD and expectJSON (and the same for whenXXX) should not require response data to be specified

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/service/http.js b/src/service/http.js
index fec4fc8d..e9c49ec2 100644
--- a/src/service/http.js
+++ b/src/service/http.js
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ function $HttpProvider() {
      * @param {Object=} config Optional configuration object
      * @returns {XhrFuture} Future object
      */
-    createShortMethods('get', 'delete', 'head', 'patch', 'jsonp');
+    createShortMethods('get', 'delete', 'head', 'jsonp');
 
     /**
      * @ngdoc method