[apps-discuss] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6902 (4596)

RFC Errata System <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org> Thu, 21 January 2016 05:23 UTC

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 21:22:33 -0800
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Subject: [apps-discuss] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6902 (4596)
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The following errata report has been submitted for RFC6902,
"JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Patch".

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You may review the report below and at:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=6902&eid=4596

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Type: Technical
Reported by: Missing 'Append' operation <jeromem@ca.ibm.com>

Section: GLOBAL

Original Text
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Its value MUST be one of "add", "remove", "replace",
"move", "copy", or "test"; other values are errors.

Corrected Text
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Its value MUST be one of "add", "append", "remove",
"replace", "move", "copy", or "test"; other values are errors.

... and more text to add the 'append' op description.

Notes
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There is a key missing piece to this RFC. You can do { "op": "add", "path": "/attr", "value": "val"}, which will add or modify the 'attr' attribute, if it exists or not. However, you cannot add an item to a potentially non-existing array. Updating an array that may or may not exists, forces the client to always call GET on the resource. See this API spec: https://orchestrate.io/docs/apiref#keyvalue-patch which implements the op 'append', which would solve this problem.

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RFC6902 (draft-ietf-appsawg-json-patch-10)
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Title : JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Patch
Publication Date : April 2013
Author(s) : P. Bryan, Ed., M. Nottingham, Ed.
Category : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source : Applications Area Working Group APP
Area : Applications
Stream : IETF
Verifying Party : IESG

[apps-discuss] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC690… RFC Errata System
[apps-discuss] [Errata Rejected] RFC6902 (4596) RFC Errata System