Any way to add a nested object?

[adherr]

I'm trying to build up a JSON document hash starting from {}. I keep ending up here when I add a nested path. I see the problem -- you can't know whether applying the patch {"op": "add", "path": "/foo/0", "value": "bar"} to {} should yield

{"foo": {"0": "bar"}}

or

{"foo": ["bar"]}

However, for paths with all non-numeric segments there should be no confusion.

Is there a way to add a nested element with Hana that I can't see? Is it reasonable to think of adding support for this?

[tenderlove]

Is there a way to add a nested element with Hana that I can't see?

No. Not that I know of.

Is it reasonable to think of adding support for this?

Yes, I think so. But add the test here so that all implementations will get the behavior.