elements that contain @ or $ are unparsable

[ddrscott]

Unfortunately the data I'm receiving contains "@" symbols and the StringScanner utilization doesn't have a way of escaping special characters.

data = 
{"colors"=>
  [{"@r"=>255, "@g"=>0, "@b"=>0},
   {"@r"=>0, "@g"=>255, "@b"=>0},
   {"@r"=>0, "@g"=>0, "@b"=>255}]}

JsonPath.on(data, "$..\\@r")
# => []
# should be => [255, 0, 0] 

[chadfennell]

Hmm, this would make parsing JSON-LD impossible.

[joshbuddy]

Let's fix this ... I'll address this later on today.

[ddrscott]

That would be awesome. I've been coding around the issue for quite some time.

[joshbuddy]

Hey @ddrscott. I'll fix this this week. It's a bit tricky because of the poor choices I made when I wrote this :)

[ddrscott]

Np. The project is still valuable as-is since it's still way easier than checking for nil every step. My projects are working, and I'm in no hurry to refactor at the moment.

I did look to see if I could update it, but got little scared halfway through. Fortunately, I could get a jpath close enough to the desired elements and still have significant code savings.

Thanks for the initial project.

[pezra]

I think this is solved for most, if not all, cases in #25.

[pezra]

@Skarlso, this is still an issue that i would like fixed. I closed #25 only because it was cluttering my pull request list and it didn't look like it would ever get merged. I'd be happy to make any improvements needed to get that merged.

[Skarlso]

@pezra Could you please re-test with 0.7.0?