Why the path starts with "X." instead of $?

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Why the path starts with "X." instead of $?

Closed this issue 5 years ago · 4 comments

YehudahA commented 5 years ago

Answer 1 · 2019-12-03T01:41:05.000Z

Why $ instead of X? Both are arbitrary. If you provide a reason along with a pull request, I'm open to it.

Answer 2 · 2019-12-03T11:16:19.000Z

$ is used by SQL Server, Oracle and more.

Answer 3 · 2019-12-05T06:45:29.000Z

From JsonPath spec:

JSONPath assumes the abstract name $ assigned to the outer level object.

https://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/

Answer 4 · 2020-05-03T23:06:36.000Z

I'm closing this as I don't think $ is a great idea. While declining in popularity, jQuery is still used all over the internet, and it is universally used as the $ variable. I think that would cause a lot more confusion in this app than using x.