JSONPath¶

{ "store": {
    "book": [ {
        "category": "reference",
        "author": "Nigel Rees",
        "title": "Sayings of the Century",
        "price": 8.95
      }, {
        "category": "fiction",
        "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
        "title": "Sword of Honour",
        "price": 12.99
      }, {
        "category": "fiction",
        "author": "Herman Melville",
        "title": "Moby Dick",
        "isbn": "0-553-21311-3",
        "price": 8.99
      }, {
        "category": "fiction",
        "author": "J. R. R. Tolkien",
        "title": "The Lord of the Rings",
        "isbn": "0-395-19395-8",
        "price": 22.99
      }
    ],
    "bicycle": {
      "color": "red",
      "price": 19.95
    }
  }
}

To fetch all the authors, the following JSONpath expression

capture:
  json: '$..author'
  as: [ author1, author2 ]

would capture the first two entries from the array

[
   "Nigel Rees",
   "Evelyn Waugh",
   "Herman Melville",
   "J. R. R. Tolkien"
]

in the variables author1 and author2.

When destructuring arrays, extra values will be discarded. That is, if the query expression returns three values but you only destructure to two variables, the third value will be discarded.

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