Thomas Mueller created OAK-264:
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Summary: MicroKernel.diff for depth limited, unspecified changes
Key: OAK-264
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-264
Project: Jackrabbit Oak
Issue Type: Bug
Components: mk
Reporter: Thomas Mueller
Currently the MicroKernel API specifies for the method "diff", if the depth
parameter is used, that unspecified changes below a certain path can be
returned as:
^ "/some/path"
I would prefer the slightly more verbose:
^ "/some/path": {}
Reason: It is similar to how getNode() returns node names if the depth limited:
"some":{"path":{}}, and it makes parsing unambiguous: there is always a ':'
after the path, whether a property was changed or a node was changed. Without
the colon, the parser needs to look ahead to decide whether a node was changed
or a property was changed (the token after the path could be the start of the
next operation). And we could never ever support ':' as an operation because
that would make parsing ambiguous.
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