JSON Merge Patch

A JSON Merge Patch utility forked from json-patch and based on fastjson, with WASM/WASI support for TinyGo.

Wasm Support

The TinyGo compiler doesn't support encoding/json or some of the reflect package that most JSON serializers are based on.

Luckily valyala/fastjson is a native go implementation that doesn't rely on encoding/json and only uses the supported reflect functions.

Therefore this package is a TinyGo compliant library for JSON Merge Patch.

Usage

Public Functions:

• MergePatch(doc, merge) -> doc : Applies a MergePatch to a JSON document and returns the new doc.
• MergeMergePatch(merge, merge) -> merge : Merges two Merge Patch documents into a single.

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/lens-vm/jsonmerge"
)

func main() {
	// Let's create a merge patch and a original document...
	original := []byte(`{"name": "John", "age": 24, "height": 3.21}`)
	merge := []byte(`{"name": "Jane", "age": 21}`)

	new, err := jsonpatch.MergePatch(original, merge)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	fmt.Printf("new merged document:   %s\n", new)
	// outputs {{"name": "Jane", "age": 21, "height": 3.21}}
}

Roadmap

Currently this project succesfully passes much of the JSON Merge RFC Tests for applying merges to 1. Documents 2. Other Merges.

Next steps is to support creating a Merge from the diff of two existing JSON Docs. This is suppported in the orignal evanphx/json-patch library, but the changes haven't made its way here.

IMPORTANT

This library is an adaptation of / based on evanphx/json-patch. The goal of this fork is to replace the original libraries dependancy on encoding/json with valyala/fastjson. The original license (BSD 3-Clause) is maintained, and the original copyright is maintained in the unchanged files.

Contributors

• John-Alan Simmons (@jsimnz)
• Evan Pheonix (@evanphx) (Original Fork)