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Re: [Json] JSON merge alternatives

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Thu, 20 March 2014 00:42 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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Subject: Re: [Json] JSON merge alternatives
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Manger, James
<James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> wrote:
> RFC 6902 "JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Patch" looks quite close to proposal 2.
> Media type: application/json-patch+json
> Operations: add, remove, replace, move, copy, test

Perfect.  Now I don't have to edit any I-Ds for this.

> draft-ietf-appsawg-json-merge-patch "JSON Merge Patch" is a simpler subset of proposal 1. It is designed to work well with JSON objects, and objects nested in objects etc. Its main limitation (compared to proposal 1) is that it doesn't support insert/replace for individual array elements.

Right.  Why not just drop draft-ietf-appsawg-json-merge-patch?

> Adding a "merge" operation to RFC 6902 would be another way to get the best of both these approaches.

Maybe, but I don't need it.

Thanks for the pointer to RFC6902!

Nico
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