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Re: [apps-discuss] Review of draft-ietf-appsawg-json-pointer

James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Thu, 15 November 2012 17:41 UTC

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From: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:41:30 -0800
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It's a zero-based array. With JSON patch, adding an item to the beginning
of the array would be done using {"op":"add", "path": "/a/b/0", "value":1},
which causes the new value to be inserted at position 0 and all existing
items to be shifted right.


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:

> On Nov 15, 2012, at 9:27 AM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This came from a requirement with json patch to allow a way of appending
> new array items to the end. This was fairly extensively discussed and
> concluded that the - was the least-complicated option that met the
> requirement.
>
> Understood. However, is there *no* reason to prepend something to the
> beginning of the list? Or is that done with "1"? (I admit not fully getting
> all the fun features of -patch).
>
> --Paul Hoffman

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