Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch

JSON pointer array indices start at zero so the example patch document below actually moves "qux" to the end of the array, instead of "bar" to the middle.

On escaping: how about replacing every '/' in an object member's name with the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER U+FFFD when creating a JSON pointer.

It means a JSON pointer cannot reference an object member that actually has a U+FFFD char in its name, but that seems so unlikely that it could be an acceptable restriction.
Escaping and unescaping is easy: eg in Java s.replace('/', '\uFFFD') to escape; s.replace('\uFFFD', '/') to unescape.
It should cause less confusion when another layer (eg URI, fragment...) adds escaping, such as %xx.

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James Manger

-----Original Message-----
From: apps-discuss-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:apps-discuss-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Julian Reschke
Sent: Wednesday, 23 November 2011 3:05 AM
To: Paul C. Bryan
Cc: apps-discuss@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch

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
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