Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 2011-11-10 11:01, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 2011-11-02 18:22, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
>> Thanks everyone for the feedback so far. Some replies:
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 13:39 +0000, Michael Dürig wrote:
>>> What is missing (wrt. to [2]) is a reorder operation.
>>
>> The ability to move items in an array has come up and seems
>> straightforward. A need (and semantics) of moving a value between two
>> arbitrary locations in a JSON document is not well understood.
>
> +1. So are you planning to add this? Would it make sense to make a
> concrete proposal?
> ...

OK, here's draft proposal:

4.4. move

    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".


Example:

    An example target JSON document:

    {
        "foo": [ "bar", "qux", "baz" ]
    }

    A JSON Patch document:

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

    The resulting JSON document:

    {
        "foo": ["qux", "bar", "baz"]
    }

Q: is a special case like "end" needed?

Best regards, Julian