JSON Patch

JSON-P 1.1 also introduced support for JSON Patch, another Internet Engineering Task Force standard, this one providing a series of operations that can be applied to a JSON document. JSON Patch allows us to perform partial updates on a JSON object.

The following operations are supported by JSON Patch:

JSON Patch Operation	Description
add	Adds an element to a JSON document.
remove	Removes an element from a JSON document.
replace	Replaces a value in a JSON document with a new value.
move	Moves a value in a JSON document from its current location in the document to a new position.
copy	Copies a value in a JSON document to a new location in the document.
test	Verifies that the value in a specific location in a JSON document is equal to the specified value.

 

JSON-P supports all of the preceding JSON Patch operations, which...