Disable removal patch operation via flag

[Tom-Ritense]

Question

I would like to only replace/add json content to existing json content.
I don't want a subset request to remove my already populated properties.

An example:

Existing json content:
{"firstName": "John", "age": 18}

Proposed json content
{"firstName": "Richard"}

When json diff is run this results in 2 op's -> 1 change 1 remove.
I would like to merge 2 json's essentially by applying patch operations.
There is no way to disable the removal operations. I was thinking about building my own processor but this is not possible as far as I can see.

[holograph]

I'm not really clear on what you're aiming for.. there are two changes in your example. Do you mean you want to get two separate JSON diffs representing each change in sequence? If so, you can easily just take the resulting array and just index it...