Document that unknown input parameters are ignored in the REST API
Change-Id: I3d10eae617eeb5b5c767c0ab28753ae7a3a59d02
diff --git a/Documentation/rest-api.txt b/Documentation/rest-api.txt
index 7928512..8e2bff6 100644
--- a/Documentation/rest-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rest-api.txt
@@ -78,6 +78,12 @@
`Accept-Encoding` request header is set to `gzip`. This may
save on network transfer time for larger responses.
+[[input]]
+=== Input Format
+Unknown JSON parameters will simply be ignored by Gerrit without causing
+an exception. This also applies to case-sensitive parameters, such as
+map keys.
+
[[timestamp]]
=== Timestamp
Timestamps are given in UTC and have the format
