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		drderidder on Oct 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JSON Patch – a format for describing changes to a ... Oh, good - someone wrote an RFC for it - thanks for the link! It looks a lot like a post on partial updates in REST [1] where I recommended using null in the context of relational databases like mysql. Now I kinda feel undefined might be a better way to explicitly delete properties, especially if using a NoSQL database. 1.http://51elliot.blogspot.ca/2014/05/rest-api-best-practices-...

logn on Oct 30, 2014 [–]

I think they used null for deletion because undefined isn't in the JSON spec. It's more of a Javascript standard.

drderidder on Oct 30, 2014 | [–]

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.

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