Re: [apps-discuss] Question about draft-snell-merge-patch-08

["Manger, James" <[e-mail]>]

> I have an implementation of said draft which basically works, but some
> questions remain unclear with regards to applying patches to JSON
> values which are not objects and null values in the patch.
> 
> Say we have JSON value:
> 
> true
> 
> and the patch reads:
> 
> {
>     "foo": null
> }
> 
> The draft says both that member "foo" should be considered undefined
> and that the whole JSON value should be replaced by the patch. So,
> what is the result of the above? Is it {} or { "foo": null }?

{} is the only result that makes sense to me.


> Similarly, if the patch were { "foo": { "bar": null } }, would the
> result be { "foo": {} } or { "foo": { "bar": null } }?

{ "foo": {} } is the sensible answer.


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James Manger