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Stefan Guggisberg reassigned OAK-264:
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Assignee: Stefan Guggisberg
> MicroKernel.diff for depth limited, unspecified changes
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> Key: OAK-264
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-264
> Project: Jackrabbit Oak
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mk
> Reporter: Thomas Mueller
> Assignee: Stefan Guggisberg
> Priority: Minor
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> 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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