Dot notation with space padded key

Setup

Selector: $. a 

{" a": 1, "a": 2, " a ": 3, "": 4}

Results

Other responses

Bash (JSONPath.sh) 

[
  3
]

C (json-glib) 

[
  3
]

Clojure (json-path) ¹ 

2

Cpp (jsoncons) 

[
  2
]

Dart (json_path)

Not supported

Instance of 'ParserException': end of input expected (at 1:2)

Elixir (ExJsonPath) 

[
  2
]

Elixir (jaxon) 

[
  3
]

Elixir (warpath) ¹ 

2

Erlang (ejsonpath) 

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  2
]

Golang (github.com-PaesslerAG-jsonpath) ¹ 

2

Golang (github.com-bhmj-jsonslice) ¹ ³ 

2

Golang (github.com-ohler55-ojg)

Not supported

Golang (github.com-oliveagle-jsonpath) ¹ 

3

Golang (github.com-spyzhov-ajson) 

[
  3
]

Golang (github.com-vmware-labs-yaml-jsonpath)

Not supported

child name missing at position 2, following "$."

Haskell (jsonpath)

Not supported

Invalid JSONPath: $. a 
 Error: 1:3:
  |
1 | $. a 
  |   ^
unexpected space
expecting '.' or white space

JavaScript (Goessner) ² 

[
  3
]

JavaScript (brunerd)

Not supported

JavaScript (jsonpath)

Not supported

Lexical error on line 1. Unrecognized text.
$. a 
--^

JavaScript (jsonpath-plus) 

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  3
]

JavaScript (jsonpathly) 

[
  2
]

Java (com.github.jsurfer) 

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  2
]

Java (com.jayway.jsonpath) ¹ ³

Not supported

SLF4J(W): No SLF4J providers were found.
SLF4J(W): Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J(W): See https://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#noProviders for further details.
com.jayway.jsonpath.InvalidPathException: Could not parse token starting at position 2

Kotlin (com.nfeld.jsonpathkt) ¹ 

1

Objective-C (SMJJSONPath) ¹ ³

Not supported

Could not parse token starting at position 2

PHP (Goessner) ² 

[
  3
]

PHP (galbar-jsonpath)

Not supported

Invalid JSONPath error: 'Error in JSONPath near '. a ''

PHP (remorhaz-jsonpath)

Not supported

Error: 'Failed to build AST from JSONPath query: $. a '

PHP (softcreatr-jsonpath)

Not supported

Error: 'Unable to parse token  a in expression: . a'

Perl (JSON-Path) 

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  3
]

Python (jsonpath) ² 

[
  3
]

Python (jsonpath-ng) 

[
  2
]

Python (jsonpath-rw) 

[
  2
]

Python (jsonpath2) 

[
  2
]

Python (python-jsonpath) 

[
  2
]

Raku (JSON-Path)

Not supported

JSON path parse error at position 1

Ruby (jsonpath) 

[]

Rust (jsonpath)

Not supported

parsing error

Rust (jsonpath_lib)

Not supported

path error: 
$. a 
^^

Rust (serde_json_path)

Not supported

at position 2, in dot member name, must start with lowercase alpha or '_'

Scala (jsonpath) 

[
  2
]

Swift (Sextant)

Not supported

NOT_SUPPORTED

dotNET (Json.NET)

Not supported

Unexpected character while parsing path:

dotNET (JsonCons.JsonPath) 

[
  2
]

dotNET (JsonPath.Net) 

[
  1
]

dotNET (JsonPathLib) 

[
  3
]

dotNET (Manatee.Json)

Not supported

Unrecognized JSON Path element. Path up to error: '$'

Errors

Rust (jsonpath_plus) 

Error Parsing JSON Path:
$. a 
panic occurred

Footnotes