Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

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?

> On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 14:57 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> As an XML person, seeing an XPath-like syntax make me happy. But
>> wouldn't be "dot" notation be much simpler, given where JSO comes from?
>
> A few of reasons we went with slashes:
>
> 1. Less confusing where array elements are involved.

...I'll have to ask :-). What about changing the notation for array 
elements to use [ and ]? More complexity in the expression language, but 
also more readability, I believe...

> 2. Slashes are less likely to appear in object member names, hence less
> percent-encoding.
> 3. Pointers are intended to be specified in URI fragment identifiers,
> and would appear to some (unsophisticated humans or machines) like a
> filename extension.

Thanks for the explanation.

Best regards, Julian