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bor3y/json-patch-php
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Produce and apply json-patch objects

0.1.0(11y ago)0277LGPL-3.0PHP

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json-patch-php
==============

[](#json-patch-php)

Produce and apply json-patch objects.

Implements IETF JSON-patch (RFC 6902) and JSON-pointer (RFC 6901):

Using with Composer
-------------------

[](#using-with-composer)

To use this library as a Composer dependency in your project, include the following sections in your project's `composer.json` file:

```
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/mikemccabe/json-patch-php"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "mikemccabe/json-patch-php": "dev-master"
    }

```

Then, in your project's code, use the `JsonPatch` class definition from the `mikemccabe\JsonPatch` namespace like so:

```
use mikemccabe\JsonPatch\JsonPatch;
```

Entry points
------------

[](#entry-points)

- JsonPatch::get($doc, $pointer) - get a value from a json document
- JsonPatch::patch($doc, $patches) - apply patches to $doc and return result
- JsonPatch::diff($src, $dst) - return patches to create $dst from $src

Arguments are PHP arrays, i.e. the output of json\_decode($json\_string, 1)

(Note that you MUST pass 1 as the second argument to json\_decode to get an array. This library does not work with stdClass objects.)

All structures are implemented directly as PHP arrays. An array is considered to be 'associative' (e.g. like a JSON 'object') if it contains at least one non-numeric key.

Because of this, empty arrays (\[\]) and empty objects ({}) compare the same, and (for instance) an 'add' of a string key to an empty array will succeed in this implementation where it might fail in others.

$simplexml\_mode is provided to help with working with arrays produced from XML in the style of simplexml - e.g. repeated XML elements are expressed as arrays. When $simplexml\_mode is enabled, leaves with scalar values are implicitly treated as length-1 arrays, so this test will succeed:

```
{ "comment": "basic simplexml array promotion",
  "doc": { "foo":1 },
  "patch": [ { "op":"add", "path":"/foo/1", "value":2 } ],
  "expected": { "foo":[1, 2] } },

```

Also, when $simplexml\_mode is true, 1-length arrays are converted to scalars on return from patch().

Tests
-----

[](#tests)

Some tests are in a submodule (). Do 'git submodule init' to pull these, then 'php runtests.php' to run them.

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###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity54

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor2

2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

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Total

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Last Release

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