Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 23 November 2011 18:06 UTC

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On 2011-11-23 19:02, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 18:37 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> On 2011-11-23 18:19, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
>> >  I'm now inclined to simply make"to"  a JSON pointer as well.
>> >  Semantically it's clear, It's easy to apply, and JSON diff
>> >  implementations can be smart if they want and notice something moved
>> >  from one node in the graph to another.
>>
>> +1, except that I'm not convinced that leaving this optional is a good
>> idea...
>
> I'd say if JSON pointer is adopted for "to", it should only be JSON pointer.
>
> Paul

Works for me.

(What I had in mind was to consider something not starting with / as 
relative pointer...)

Best regards, Julian