René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Support fallback syntax","articleBody":"\u003c!--\nNOTE: THIS PROJECT IS NOT BEING ACTIVELY MAINTAINED.\n\nYou can file a suggestion in case someone decides to work on it.\n\nHowever, any proposed syntax changes will most likely be required to\nfirst go through standardization for consistency with other jsonpath\nimplementatioins.\n\nSee https://github.com/JSONPath-Plus/JSONPath/issues/124 .\n--\u003e\n\n## Motivation\n\n\u003c!-- What would be the purpose of this new feature? --\u003e\n\nallow for the option to fallback to other parts of the json being queried if queried option undefined.\n\n## Current behavior\n\n\u003c!-- If this is to enhance an existing rule, how does the rule\n   currently behave in regard to the new changes? --\u003e\n\nThis is currently not supported.\n\n## Desired behavior\n\n\u003c!-- What would you like to see happen instead? --\u003e\n\njq supports this through the following syntax `query1 // query2 // query3 etc...` We could implement a similar syntax potentially preferring `||` as the operator.\n\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/bit-tyler","@type":"Person","name":"bit-tyler"},"datePublished":"2025-09-01T23:37:33.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/241/JSONPath/issues/241"}