Partial updates are also a very popular discussion topic on the
restful-json Google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/restful-json
But AFAIK no consensus has been reached yet. Best, Adam
On Nov 13, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Noah Slater wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:09:03AM +1030, Antony Blakey wrote:
IMO the simplest thing that would work (ignoring representation)
looks
something like this:
insert <json> in <jsonpath>
insert <json> after <jsonpath>
insert <json> before <jsonpath>
delete <jsonpath>
replace <jsonpath> with <json>
where jsonpath is roughly as: http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/
without the executable expressions.
Hmm, this seems pretty cool.
I did some digging to see what else is out there:
* http://intertwingly.net/blog/2008/02/21/APP-Level-Patch
* http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2008/02/15/restful-partial-
updates/
* http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=895
* http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2008JanMar/
0316.html
* http://www.snellspace.com/wp/?p=902
I think I agree that if this was to hit CouchDB it should be done
via the PATCH
method, makes the most sense given the context.
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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
