I have been researching Spring Boot and Spring Cloud, there are lots of goodies here but as with all technology there are gotchas.
Feign Client does not support PATCH out of the box! ಠ_ಠ ... ಠ~ಠ ... ⊙︿⊙
You might see an error like this if you try to use RequestMethod.PATCH
in your @FeignClient interface:
java.net.ProtocolException: Invalid HTTP method: PATCH
I am using the current versions: