Re: [Json] Proposed Wording for New WG Charter

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Tue, 18 March 2014 15:53 UTC

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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:53:20 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Json] Proposed Wording for New WG Charter
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Got some examples?  I’ve not seen this, and a search for “json patch” on
stackoverflow.com has some discussions of the draft, but apparently nobody
actually doing it.


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>wrote:

> On 2014-03-18 16:40, Tim Bray wrote:
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>> It also needs some evidence that there’s actually a real-world need, and
>> that this isn’t just another solution in search of a problem.  I haven’t
>> seen any such evidence yet.
>>
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> The evidence is that people are abusing application/json for PATCH
> requests already. The semantics of that is undefined right now.
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> Best regards, Julian
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