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Re: [Json] [apps-discuss] merge-patch in APPSA and i-json in JSON

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 09 July 2014 17:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] [apps-discuss] merge-patch in APPSA and i-json in JSON
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On 08 Jul 2014, at 21:06, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> What is meant by "the Key/Value pair" if there is more than one?
> Are all such pairs to be removed or mutated, or only one of them?

It may have been intuitively obvious to the authors and reviewers, but may still be worthwhile mentioning in a sentence, that the merge-patch operation is defined at the level of the JSON data model.  Specifically, there is no expectation that merge-patch preserves representation level features such as white space, member ordering etc.

Grüße, Carsten

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