JSON Merge Patch API

Applies an RFC7386 JSON Merge Patch where null deletes a key and nested objects recurse, returning the merged document. Answers 'How do I apply an RFC7386 merge patch?', 'How does null-deletes-key merging work?'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data-transform/json-merge-patch

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

Cache0s public

data-transformmerge-patchrfc7386mergejsonpatchwrangle

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data-transform/json-merge-patch

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "target": {
    "a": 1,
    "b": {
      "x": 1,
      "y": 2
    }
  },
  "patch": {
    "b": {
      "y": null,
      "z": 9
    },
    "c": 3
  }
}

Example response

{
  "result": {
    "a": 1,
    "b": {
      "x": 1,
      "z": 9
    },
    "c": 3
  }
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "patch"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "target": {
      "type": "object",
      "examples": [
        {
          "a": 1,
          "b": {
            "x": 1,
            "y": 2
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "patch": {
      "type": "object",
      "examples": [
        {
          "b": {
            "y": null,
            "z": 9
          },
          "c": 3
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}