Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch

["Paul C. Bryan" <[e-mail]>]

Looks good to me. I don't think "end" is needed, as the end index can be
explicitly specified.

Paul

On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 17:05 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:

> On 2011-11-10 11:01, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > 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?
> > ...
> 
> OK, here's draft proposal:
> 
> 4.4. move
> 
>     The "move" operation moves an existing array element. The "to" 
> member indicates the array position as integer value. This operation is 
> equivalent to removing the element identified by "move", an inserting it 
> again at the position "to".
> 
> 
> Example:
> 
>     An example target JSON document:
> 
>     {
>         "foo": [ "bar", "qux", "baz" ]
>     }
> 
>     A JSON Patch document:
> 
>     [
>         { "move": "/foo/1", "to": 2}
>     ]
> 
>     The resulting JSON document:
> 
>     {
>         "foo": ["qux", "bar", "baz"]
>     }
> 
> Q: is a special case like "end" needed?
> 
> Best regards, Julian