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Re:JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON do... by chj on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @09:51PM (#8530945)
JSON data is not always stored as texts.
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Re:JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON do... by disordinary on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @10:50PM (#8531095)
How else would you store it? Javascript Object Notation is text. Other formats such as BSON are different.

Or are you simply talking about javascript style object literals?

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Re:JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON do... by chj on Thursday October 30, 2014 @09:07AM (#8532657)
JSON is external representation of objects. You can store the actual data on server in any form you like. Doesn't mean you have to store them in text.
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Re:JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON do... by disordinary on Thursday October 30, 2014 @07:03PM (#8536349)
But its Javascript Object Notation - Notation in this case implies text - if your storing it in something other than text it's not JSON.

From Wikipedia: JavaScript Object Notation, is an open standard format that uses human-readable text to transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs.

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Re:JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON do... by chj on Friday October 31, 2014 @09:00AM (#8538484)
Like you pointed out JSON is used to transmit data objects, but storage of data objects on the server or local file is entirely different story. I hope I don't have to explain further.
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Re:JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON do... by disordinary on Sunday November 02, 2014 @05:44PM (#8548411)
Yes, then its no longer json...
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