jsonPath and email address

Question

I am using jsonpath.com to try to use an email address as the KEY.

so my data might look like this:

"phoneNumbers": [
    {
      "type"  : "iPhone",
      "[email protected]": 123456,
      "number": "0123-4567-8888"
    },

however, i am unable to reference the email address:

$.phoneNumbers[0]['type']             // iPhone
$.phoneNumbers[0]['number']           // 0123-4567-8888
$.phoneNumbers[0]['[email protected]']    // no match
$.phoneNumbers[0]['bob\@gmail.com']   // no match
$.phoneNumbers[0]['bob\@gmail\.com']  // no match

how may i specify a jsonPath key using an email address?

Answer 1

The dot in .com is the problem. See this SO answer. It would seem that it should be possible to do $.phoneNumbers[0]['[email protected]'], but not on jsonpath.com

The key statement in that answer:

jsonpath.com is based on an outdated version of JSONPath and is not reliable for previewing what current libraries would provide you with.