The target location MUST exist for the operation to be successful.
In JSON Pointer, 'the single character "-", mak[es] the new referenced value the (nonexistent) member after the last array element.'
Thus, both remove and replace can't use a path with -. However, anecdotally some implementations are using - to indicate roughly "the last element of the array" and allowing them in remove and replace.
Unfortunately, the tests don't cover this case, so it's not clear how implementations behave.
The definitions of
removeandreplaceboth state:In JSON Pointer, 'the single character "-", mak[es] the new referenced value the (nonexistent) member after the last array element.'
Thus, both
removeandreplacecan't use apathwith-. However, anecdotally some implementations are using-to indicate roughly "the last element of the array" and allowing them inremoveandreplace.Unfortunately, the tests don't cover this case, so it's not clear how implementations behave.