Define wildcard behavior about template-analyzer HOT 1 CLOSED

Decision

If the path in an Evaluation contains a wildcard, this will be the behavior:

• Only paths in the template which fully satisfy the full path specification in path will be returned; paths that are incomplete will be ignored.
• If no path can be found in the template that satisfies path, nothing is returned.
  • The operator with the path will not evaluate anything, and the Evaluation they are a part of will not have any result.
• When multiple paths match the path specification, all are selected, and the operator will evaluate each individually
  • These results will be logically &&-ed together, and the result of the overall Expression will be the result of the &&.

If a rule intends to enforce some logic on a wildcard path (where a path doesn't fully exist, but should), other features/mechanisms in the language can be used in combination to bring enforcement.

For example, to force evaluation of a property of an array element, specify the path segments in different scopes.

{
- "path": "array[*].name", // any element in 'array' without a 'name' property isn't selected
+ "path": "array[*]", // select all elements in 'array'
  "evaluate": {
    "path": "name", // evaluate the 'name' property of the element
    …
  }
}

from template-analyzer.