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Re: [Jsonpath] JSONPath draft charter

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 02 September 2020 07:40 UTC

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On 2020-09-02, at 06:45, Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I anticipate being asked "Why is JSON Pointer not sufficient?"  Indeed its abstract says:

I’m trying to answer this on the slide at

https://youtu.be/Ujch6Wukjc0?t=48

The short answer is that JSON pointer is good if you already know the structure of the JSON data item you want to point into, and you want to point to exactly one position in there.  If you need to do something that is closer to a “search” (which might also result in multiple positions), JSONPath gives you more rope.

BTW, for easier editing/PR-ing I have put up Tim’s proposal with Brian’s proposed changes at
https://github.com/jsonpath-wg/charter/blob/master/charter.txt

Grüße, Carsten

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