From c0062ebb7cc9d5ce04136046e5e93ebb8b228b79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kavyaNamballa <163406073+kavyaNamballa@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:18:28 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix/1043 empty array handling in filter expressions

to return false for empty results
---
 .../com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ValueNodes.java  | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ValueNodes.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ValueNodes.java
index 3f459a8c1..e0ae8fbf4 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ValueNodes.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ValueNodes.java
@@ -678,7 +678,14 @@ public ValueNode evaluate(Predicate.PredicateContext ctx) {
                 try {
                     Configuration c = Configuration.builder().jsonProvider(ctx.configuration().jsonProvider()).options(Option.REQUIRE_PROPERTIES).build();
                     Object result = path.evaluate(ctx.item(), ctx.root(), c).getValue(false);
-                    return result == JsonProvider.UNDEFINED ? FALSE : TRUE;
+                    if (result == JsonProvider.UNDEFINED) {
+                        return FALSE;
+                    }
+                    // If the result is an empty array, return FALSE for exists checks
+                    if (ctx.configuration().jsonProvider().isArray(result) && ctx.configuration().jsonProvider().length(result) == 0) {
+                        return FALSE;
+                    }
+                    return TRUE;
                 } catch (PathNotFoundException e) {
                     return FALSE;
                 }