markup:json:path

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About

JsonPath is used to query and get values from JSON (ie or Javascript Object document)

It's the same concept than XPath for XML

It's a selector language for json.

Selector language

Language	Equivalent Expression
XPath	/store/book[1]/title
JSONPath	$.store.book[0].title
JsonPointer	/store/book/0/title
JQ	.store.book[0].title

Implementation

Name	Language
JayWay JsonPath ¹⁾	Java
Groovy GPath ²⁾	Groovy

JsonPath

supported in idea

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JMESPath

JMESPath is a query language for JSON that:

takes a JSON document
and transform it into another JSON document

through a JMESPath expression.

Library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jmespath

¹⁾

https://github.com/json-path/JsonPath

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Doc, Limitations

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https://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki/For-JSONPath-users

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https://www.javadoc.io/doc/io.rest-assured/json-path/latest/io/restassured/path/json/JsonPath.html