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Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Thu, 24 November 2011 02:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch
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On 23 November 2011 03:05, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>   The "move" operation moves an existing array element. The "to" member
> indicates the array position as integer value. This operation is equivalent
> to removing the element identified by "move", an inserting it again at the
> position "to".
>   A JSON Patch document:
>
>   [
>       { "move": "/foo/1", "to": 2}
>   ]

A thought occurred.  What about this?

[
  { "move" : "/foo/1", "to": "/foo/2" }
]

And allow for movement anywhere in the document.

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