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

src/angular-mocks.js

@@ -748,11 +748,17 @@ function createHttpBackendMock($delegate, $defer) {
 
 
   function createShortMethods(prefix) {
-    angular.forEach(['GET', 'PUT', 'POST', 'DELETE', 'PATCH', 'JSONP'], function(method) {
-     $httpBackend[prefix + method] = function(url, data, headers) {
-       return $httpBackend[prefix](method, url, data, headers)
+    angular.forEach(['GET', 'DELETE', 'JSONP'], function(method) {
+     $httpBackend[prefix + method] = function(url, headers) {
+       return $httpBackend[prefix](method, url, undefined, headers)
      }
     });
+
+    angular.forEach(['PUT', 'POST'], function(method) {
+      $httpBackend[prefix + method] = function(url, data, headers) {
+        return $httpBackend[prefix](method, url, data, headers)
+      }
+    });
   }
 };
 

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

test/angular-mocksSpec.js

@@ -819,9 +819,9 @@ describe('ngMock', function() {
     });
 
 
-    describe('expect/when shorcuts', function() {
+    describe('expect/when shortcuts', function() {
       angular.forEach(['expect', 'when'], function(prefix) {
-        angular.forEach(['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE', 'PATCH', 'JSONP'], function(method) {
+        angular.forEach(['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'DELETE', 'JSONP'], function(method) {
           var shortcut = prefix + method;
           it('should provide ' + shortcut + ' shortcut method', function() {
             hb[shortcut]('/foo').respond('bar');

test/service/httpSpec.js

@@ -479,18 +479,6 @@ describe('$http', function() {
       });
 
 
-      it('should have patch()', function() {
-        $httpBackend.expect('PATCH', '/url').respond('');
-        $http.patch('/url');
-      });
-
-
-      it('patch() should allow config param', function() {
-        $httpBackend.expect('PATCH', '/url', undefined, checkHeader('Custom', 'Header')).respond('');
-        $http.patch('/url', {headers: {'Custom': 'Header'}});
-      });
-
-
       it('should have post()', function() {
         $httpBackend.expect('POST', '/url', 'some-data').respond('');
         $http.post('/url', 'some-data');