Re: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-json-pointer-01.txt

["Paul C. Bryan" <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 14:44 -0700, Mike Acar wrote:

> Typo: In section 4,
> 
>      The member name is equal to the token if it has the same number of
>      Unicode characters as token and their codepoints are positionwise
>      equal.
> 
> Need a "the" between "as" and "token".


Thanks, fixed in next revision.


> You removed one "concrete", but should probably remove the next two. 
> Since the section begins with
> 
>      Evaluation of a JSON Pointer begins with a reference to the root
>      value of a JSON text document
> 
> the implication is that you're following the pointer and traversing an 
> existing (concrete) object.
> 
> Actually, I suggest rewriting the paragraph, something like:
> 
>      While evaluating the JSON Pointer, if the implementation does not
>      match the reference token to a member name or array index in the
>      currently-referenced value, then the implementation MAY terminate
>      evaluation with an error condition.
> 
> That said, I'm still concerned that this behavior interacts badly with 
> Pointers as they're used in JSON Patch. I'll follow up in the patch 
> thread, though.


Hmm, okay, we'll need to continue discussing this.

Paul