Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch

"Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Thu, 24 November 2011 07:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch
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On 2011/11/24 11:03, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 23 November 2011 03:05, Julian Reschke<julian.reschke@gmx.de>  wrote:
>>    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".
>>    A JSON Patch document:
>>
>>    [
>>        { "move": "/foo/1", "to": 2}
>>    ]
>
> A thought occurred.  What about this?
>
> [
>    { "move" : "/foo/1", "to": "/foo/2" }
> ]

The syntax looks good. But what is /foo/2 in the "to" part exactly 
referring to? Is is array position 2 after /foo/1 has been removed? Or 
before?

Regards,    Martin.