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If you need to refer to a key with ~ or / in its name, you must escape the characters with ~0 and ~1 respectively. For example, to get “baz” from { “foo/bar~”: “baz” } you’d use the pointer /foo1bar0.
I guess they’re using
~
for escaping since backslash is already escaping text content, not that you’d see it very often in keys.Having magic values instead of using
~~
and~/
feels ugly.Why use JSON Pointer? We already have structured data (JSON), so what’s wrong with
["biscuits", 0, "name"]
instead of"biscuits/0/name"
? This sidesteps the escaping problem.And the reason is clearly not brevity, given the rest of the spec.