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Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch not suitable for GeoJSON?

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Thu, 24 January 2013 15:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch not suitable for GeoJSON?
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>> as an example, operations may have to be applied on objects filtered by
>> some key-value-conditions in its leafs.
>>
>> A JSON Patch document may have to look like this:
>>
>> [
>>    { "op": "remove", "path": "/features/*/[\"id\"=\"2\"]::parent" }
>> ]
>>
>> Maybe you can exert this suggestion.
>
> Essentially you're asking for XPath-like expression (which I sympathize with
> :-).
>
> However, the design goal was to keep things as simple as possible, and
> furthermore the spec just has been approved.

But you could always write up a proposal for an alternative patch
format -- it's perfectly possible to have multiple different patch
formats for different use cases.

Barry

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