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

mike amundsen <mamund@yahoo.com> Thu, 29 December 2011 16:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] media type for partial JSON updates?
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:46, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2011-12-29 17:07, mike amundsen wrote:
>>
>> Julian:
>>
>>
>> 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.

understood.

>
>
>> 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?

i do not, my message here was too vague.

1) i assumed you were proposing a new document that discussed PATCH
for partial updates.
2) i meant to say that the document you propose "might be the proper
place.... etc."
3) i assumed your text "define a matching media type ... It might be a
light-weight alternative to what
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pbryan-json-patch-04> describes..."
meant you were proposing a NEW media type to register w/ the IANA and
i suggested the XML PATCH (RFC5621, i think) as a possible template
for designing a JSON variant that would be this NEW media type.

>
> Best regards, Julian