Use JSON patch for editing components (#3674)

src/main/utils/http-responses.ts

@@ -21,14 +21,37 @@
 
 import type http from "http";
 
-export function respondJson(res: http.ServerResponse, content: any, status = 200) {
-  respond(res, JSON.stringify(content), "application/json", status);
+/**
+ * Respond to a HTTP request with a body of JSON data
+ * @param res The HTTP response to write data to
+ * @param content The data or its JSON stringified version of it
+ * @param status [200] The status code to respond with
+ */
+export function respondJson(res: http.ServerResponse, content: Object | string, status = 200) {
+  const normalizedContent = typeof content === "object" 
+    ? JSON.stringify(content) 
+    : content;
+
+  respond(res, normalizedContent, "application/json", status);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Respond to a HTTP request with a body of plain text data
+ * @param res The HTTP response to write data to
+ * @param content The string data to respond with
+ * @param status [200] The status code to respond with
+ */
 export function respondText(res: http.ServerResponse, content: string, status = 200) {
   respond(res, content, "text/plain", status);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Respond to a HTTP request with a body of plain text data
+ * @param res The HTTP response to write data to
+ * @param content The string data to respond with
+ * @param contentType The HTTP Content-Type header value
+ * @param status [200] The status code to respond with
+ */
 export function respond(res: http.ServerResponse, content: string, contentType: string, status = 200) {
   res.setHeader("Content-Type", contentType);
   res.statusCode = status;