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Re: [apps-discuss] media type for partial JSON updates?

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 29 December 2011 16:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] media type for partial JSON updates?
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On 2011-12-29 17:07, mike amundsen wrote:
> Julian:
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> I think there is already an XML format for PATCH, right? (can't seem
> to find it right now) It might not bee too much work to spin up a
> parallel media type definition using the JSON format.

Oh, there is already a proposal for a JSON-based patch format as well.

> That document might be proper place to describe a typical PATCH media
> type as (improvising here) "a format designed to *modify* an existing
> entity rather than replace all or part of an existing entity and/or
> introduce the notion of "partial updates" through the description of
> the PATCH method.

Why would you want to describe this as part of a spec for an XML format?

Best regards, Julian

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