This is an implementation of RFC6902 for use in Play applications without the need for additional wrappers.

To use it in your project, simply include it in your build.sbt:

libraryDependencies += "de.lenabrueder" %% "play-rfc6902" % "0.6"

Please use https://github.com/gnieh/diffson instead of this library. At the time I wrote this, Diffson did not have support for the play framework JSON lib. It now has it (and support for circe as well), so no need to use my lib anymore.

val json = Json.parse("""{"a":"b", "b":{"c":"d"}, "c":1}""")
JsPatch(Json.parse("""[{"op":"remove", "path":"/b"}]""")) match {
    case Right(patch) => patch(json) match {
        case Right(patchedJson) => Logger.debug(s"patched json: $patchedJson")
        case Left((patch, errors)) => Logger.debug(s"patch application failed, errors: $errors")
    }
    case Left((patch, errors)) => Logger.debug(s"patch parsing failed, errors: $errors")
}

Will output

patched json: {"a":"b","c":1}

For more examples, have a look at the test cases.

Build with activator/sbt.

Release 1.0 will be RFC6902 and RFC6901 compliant and be able to apply patches.

This library implements an extension to RFC6902. With the original RFC, it is impossible to add a specific JSON element to a structure you do not know, without affecting other parts of the original JSON. This is due to the fact that the add operation can only be applied to a path that already exists. Since in the use cases I have for the library (implementing HTTP PATCH endpoints) it is of use to do such things, I added the overlay operation, which overlays a given JSON at a given path.

Let's take

[{"op": "overlay", "path": "/a/b/c", "value": {"rainbow": "unicorn", "verygood": "example"}]

as the patch I'd like to apply. Applying it to

{}

will result in

{
  "a": {
    "b": {
      "c": {
        "rainbow": "unicorn",
        "verygood": "example"
      }
    }
  }
}

whereas applying it to

{
  "a": {
    "b": {
      "c": {
        "rainbow": "not a unicorn",
        "nothingtodo": "withit"
      }
    }
  }
}

will result in

{
  "a": {
    "b": {
      "c": {
        "rainbow": "unicorn",
        "verygood": "example",
        "nothingtodo": "withit"
      }
    }
  }
}

So, the operation is like a merge where the values that reside in the patch always win in the case of a conflict.