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Re:JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON do... by logn on Thursday October 30, 2014 @12:31AM (#8531383)
I think they used null for deletion because undefined isn't in the JSON spec. It's more of a Javascript standard.
Re:JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a JSON do... by drderidder on Thursday October 30, 2014 @09:53AM (#8532894)
Thanks, you're right. "null" is what I do use - I forgot undefined won't work with JSON.parse. It would be nice to have a way to explicitly define a property as null, versus non-extant.