Re: [apps-discuss] Question about draft-snell-merge-patch-08

[Francis Galiegue <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Manger, James
<[e-mail]> wrote:
[...]
>
>> Similarly, if the patch were { "foo": { "bar": null } }, would the
>> result be { "foo": {} } or { "foo": { "bar": null } }?
>
> { "foo": {} } is the sensible answer.
>

OK, I have since noticed that the reference draft is
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-json-merge-patch-02, and
the text in this draft is more clear about that.

However, there is also that text in section 2, which kind of troubles
me, since there are no examples:

          [...] Any null member contained in a provided array MUST be
          ignored and treated as if the member was undefined, even
          within array or object members within the array.

Uhm. So, does this mean that if the value is:

[ 1, null, { "a": null } ]

then it really should be patched to:

[ 1, {} ]

?

Also, in point 1 (ie, both the patch and victim are arrays), it only
says that "Any null member contained in the merge patch MUST be
ignored and treated as if those members are undefined". What are
members here? Does that include array elements?

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