jmespath - Filter or conditional statement on a simple document?

Question

On the below simple JSON document

{ "result" : 5 }

I would like to filter or apply a condition in order to get value matching result > 5

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65879118/filter-or-conditional-statement-on-a-simple-document

Answer 1

JMESPath is not really meant to act on a single object.

In order to achieve this, though, you can convert the object to an array, with the function to_array and back to an object, using | [0], in order to extract back the first element of the list, as explained in working with nested data.

All together, this gives the query:

to_array(@)[?result>`5`] | [0]

• Which, on the JSON:

  { "result" : 5 }
  

  gives:

  null
  

• And, on the JSON:

  { "result" : 6 }
  

  gives:

  {
    "result": 6
  }