[apps-discuss] JSON Patch not suitable for GeoJSON?

"Martin Kofahl" <M.Kofahl@gmx.de> Thu, 24 January 2013 13:00 UTC

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Subject: [apps-discuss] JSON Patch not suitable for GeoJSON?
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Hello. I came across the draft-ietf-appsawg-json-patch-10 proposal and hope that's the right here place to put a question.

As far I can see any remove, replace, etc. operations can be applied on object members or numbered array elements, only. I don't think this is sufficient for some formats. Taking GeoJSON 

{ "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "features": [
    { "type": "Feature",
      "id": "2",
      "geometry": {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [102.0, 0.5]},
      "properties": {"prop0": "value0"}
    },
    ...
  ]
}

as an example, operations may have to be applied on objects filtered by some key-value-conditions in its leafs.

A JSON Patch document may have to look like this:

[
  { "op": "remove", "path": "/features/*/[\"id\"=\"2\"]::parent" }
]

Maybe you can exert this suggestion.

Kind regards,
Martin