Dot notation on empty object value

Setup

Selector: $.key

{
  "key": {}
}

Results

Consensus

[
  {}
]

Scalar consensus

The scalar consensus applies for implementations which return a single value where only one match is possible (instead of an array of a single value).

{}

Other responses

Bash (JSONPath.sh)

[]

PHP (Goessner) ²

[
  []
]

PHP (galbar-jsonpath) ²

[
  []
]

Footnotes

• ¹ This implementation returns a single value where only one match is possible (instead of an array of a single value).
• ² This implementation returns a specific not found value if no match exists.
• ³ This implementation returns a specific not found value if a query that would regularly return a single match results in no match.