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zzbzq ◴[18 Oct 24 17:32 UTC] No.41881636[source]▶

Never liked it. Ignores the wonderful fact that javascript's type system natively distinguishes undefined from null values.

{ "name": "bob", "phone" null }

This would set the name to bob, null out the phone, but leave all other fields untouched. No need for a DSL-over-json.

Only trouble is static type people love their type serializers, which are ever at a mismatch with the json they work with.

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1. bityard ◴[18 Oct 24 17:38 UTC] No.41881682[source]▶

>>41881636 #

I'm working on something right now that has a need to add/remove a few items to a very large array. (Not merely updating properties of an existing Object.) I ran across JSON Patch as a solution to this but ended up implementing just the part from it that I actually needed. (The "add" and "remove" operators.)

The alternative is the modify the large array on the client side and send the whole modified array every time.

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