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

[Francis Galiegue <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

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 }?

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

Cheers,
-- 
Francis Galiegue, [e-mail]
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