Python JSONPath Filter expressions error, Unexpected character for jsonpath-rw 1.4.0

Question

I installed jsonpath-rw 1.4.0 with

sudo apt-get install python-jsonpath-rw

which comes with a /usr/bin/jsonpath. But that is giving me errors when using Filter expressions:

$ jsonpath '$..book[?(@.price < 10)]' book.json
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/jsonpath", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('jsonpath-rw==1.4.0', 'console_scripts', 'jsonpath.py')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jsonpath_rw/bin/jsonpath.py", line 71, in entry_point
    main(*sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jsonpath_rw/bin/jsonpath.py", line 57, in main
    expr = parse(args.expression)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jsonpath_rw/parser.py", line 14, in parse
    return JsonPathParser().parse(string)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jsonpath_rw/parser.py", line 32, in parse
    return self.parse_token_stream(lexer.tokenize(string))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jsonpath_rw/parser.py", line 55, in parse_token_stream
    return new_parser.parse(lexer = IteratorToTokenStream(token_iterator))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ply/yacc.py", line 331, in parse
    return self.parseopt_notrack(input, lexer, debug, tracking, tokenfunc)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ply/yacc.py", line 1061, in parseopt_notrack
    lookahead = get_token()     # Get the next token
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jsonpath_rw/parser.py", line 179, in token
    return next(self.iterator)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jsonpath_rw/lexer.py", line 33, in tokenize
    t = new_lexer.token()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ply/lex.py", line 393, in token
    newtok = self.lexerrorf(tok)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/jsonpath_rw/lexer.py", line 165, in t_error
    raise JsonPathLexerError('Error on line %s, col %s: Unexpected character: %s ' % (t.lexer.lineno, t.lexpos - t.lexer.latest_newline, t.value[0]))
jsonpath_rw.lexer.JsonPathLexerError: Error on line 1, col 8: Unexpected character: ? 

So does jsonpath-rw 1.4.0 not support Filter expressions?

It seems to be working fine according to this blog post, but that's in 2015.

Has things changed since then?

Answer 1

I got this working by using jsonpath-rw-ext instead of jsonpath-rw. This seems to be the one that has support for the filter extensions.