PathNode evaluate() should build configuration using passed in mappingProvider

[ajaymandvekar]

The PathNode->Evaluate() func builds configuration without using the passed in ctx->mappingProvider.
It leads the configuration to fallback to default mappingProvider. This doesn't seem to cause any issue when used with Jackson providers but with Gson it leads to use Jackson Mapping provider if defaults are not set statically.

Solution:

Replace

JsonPath/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/ValueNodes.java

Line 627 in 1ed1ea0

Configuration c = Configuration.builder().jsonProvider(ctx.configuration().jsonProvider()).options(Option.REQUIRE_PROPERTIES).build();

with

Configuration c = Configuration.builder().jsonProvider(ctx.configuration().jsonProvider()).mappingProvider(ctx.configuration().mappingProvider()).options(Option.REQUIRE_PROPERTIES).build();

NOTE:
This is a problem when json-smart is completely excluded and Gson is used as the sole provider and mapper.

[uschindler]

Hi we also see this problem if you only use GSON and exclude json-smart.

IMHO, the whole json-smart dependency should be optional and all occurences of "net.minidev" should be nuked from code.