Apply regex to leaf nodes, or filter by type?

[deliciouslytyped]

Slightly related to https://github.com/h2non/jsonpath-ng/issues/58 , $..*[?(@[*] =~ "whatever")] fails in https://github.com/h2non/jsonpath-ng/blob/de4df602945b72014b4d94dbbfc947ea997fee77/jsonpath_ng/ext/filter.py#L29 with "expected string or bytes-like object" because it tries to run the regex on a list.

Is there any way to make this work?

Is there a way to apply the regex to any leaf node?

[deliciouslytyped]

Things are a bit of a mess between this issue and https://github.com/h2non/jsonpath-ng/issues/58 ; the nice thing to do would be to make a pr for my patches but this diff will have to do for the moment.

diff -r hiv2xlsx/venv3/Lib/site-packages/jsonpath_ng/ext/filter.py jsonpath-ng/jsonpath_ng/ext/filter.py
20,24d19
< def matcher(a,b):
<     if isinstance(a, str):
<         return True if re.search(b, a) else False
<     else:
<         return False
34c29
<     '=~': matcher,
---
>     '=~': lambda a, b: True if re.search(b, a) else False,
Only in hiv2xlsx/venv3/Lib/site-packages/jsonpath_ng/ext: __pycache__
diff -r hiv2xlsx/venv3/Lib/site-packages/jsonpath_ng/jsonpath.py jsonpath-ng/jsonpath_ng/jsonpath.py
566c566
<         if (isinstance(datum.value, list) or isinstance(datum.value, dict)) and datum.value and len(datum.value) > self.index:
---
>         if datum.value and len(datum.value) > self.index:

With these patches, the missing piece was that I should be using @.

• [ ] It might be good to have an example in documentation, assuming my patches don't break something and are consistent with how this is intended to work.

import jsonpath_ng.ext as p
(r := [x.value for x in p.parse('$..@[?(@ =~ ".*dsa.*")]').find({1:[{2:"asd",3:"dsa"}]})])

['dsa']