From f5246573c326afa7e4c2f23bff4debea42f5bd0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Krecan <lukas@krecan.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:51:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] #483 Support JsonPath in whenIgnoringPaths

---
 .../javacrumbs/jsonunit/core/internal/PathMatcher.java    | 2 +-
 .../jsonunit/test/base/AbstractAssertJTest.java           | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/json-unit-core/src/main/java/net/javacrumbs/jsonunit/core/internal/PathMatcher.java b/json-unit-core/src/main/java/net/javacrumbs/jsonunit/core/internal/PathMatcher.java
index b7b1ae1c..34ce57e3 100644
--- a/json-unit-core/src/main/java/net/javacrumbs/jsonunit/core/internal/PathMatcher.java
+++ b/json-unit-core/src/main/java/net/javacrumbs/jsonunit/core/internal/PathMatcher.java
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ private static class SimplePathMatcher extends PathMatcher {
 
         @Override
         boolean matches(String pathToMatch) {
-            return path.equals(pathToMatch) || path.equals("$." + pathToMatch);
+            return path.equals(pathToMatch) || path.equals("$." + pathToMatch) || path.equals("$" + pathToMatch);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/test-base/src/main/java/net/javacrumbs/jsonunit/test/base/AbstractAssertJTest.java b/tests/test-base/src/main/java/net/javacrumbs/jsonunit/test/base/AbstractAssertJTest.java
index e04edfa5..e5fb8a3a 100644
--- a/tests/test-base/src/main/java/net/javacrumbs/jsonunit/test/base/AbstractAssertJTest.java
+++ b/tests/test-base/src/main/java/net/javacrumbs/jsonunit/test/base/AbstractAssertJTest.java
@@ -678,6 +678,14 @@ void shouldIgnoreArrayElement() {
         assertThatJson("{\"root\":[0, 1, 2]}").whenIgnoringPaths("root[1]").isEqualTo("{\"root\":[0, 8, 2]}");
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void shouldIgnoreJsonPaths() {
+        String expected = "[{\"name\":\"123\",\"age\":2},{\"name\":\"321\",\"age\":5}]";
+        String actual = "[{\"name\":\"123\",\"age\":5},{\"name\":\"321\",\"age\":8}]";
+
+        assertThatJson(expected).whenIgnoringPaths("$..age").isEqualTo(actual);
+    }
+
     @Test
     void arraySimpleIgnoringOrderNotEqualComparison() {
         assertThatJson("{\"a\":[{\"b\": 1}, {\"c\": 1}, {\"d\": 1}]}")