Clarification Needed: Understanding the PUT Request and Its Constraints

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  Hello experts,   I am currently studying this module(https://academy.mendix.com/link/modules/526/lectures/4134/2.3-The-Different-Methods) and was wondering what "The PUT request should identify a single object (a PUT method should not create a new object, unless another system also owns the identifier)" means in this context. It would be appreciated if you could explain it with examples.   Thank you.   Best regards,
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Every PUT-request by a sender contains an identifier for the object that it puts into the target application. Often this identifier-value has been retrieved from the target application earlier on, and the target application is the manager of the identifier-values. In that situation, it is not possible for the sender to create a new object by posting a PUT-request, because the sender can not determine the identifier-value of the new object.

However, if the sender is the manager of the identifier-value ("owns the identifier"), and not the target application, then the sender can create the identifier-value, pass it along in the PUT-request (along with any other information of the object-to-be-created), and make the target application create a new object in the target application.

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