Accept URLs as input but deprecate URL methods #218.

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

@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ public class JsonPath {
      * @return list of objects matched by the given path
      */
     @SuppressWarnings({"unchecked"})
+    @Deprecated
     public static <T> T read(URL jsonURL, String jsonPath, Predicate... filters) throws IOException {
         return new JsonContext().parse(jsonURL).read(jsonPath, filters);
     }

json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/ParseContext.java

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ package com.jayway.jsonpath;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URL;
 
 public interface ParseContext {
 
@@ -29,4 +30,7 @@ public interface ParseContext {
     DocumentContext parse(InputStream json, String charset);
 
     DocumentContext parse(File json) throws IOException;
+
+    @Deprecated
+    DocumentContext parse(URL json) throws IOException;
 }

json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/JsonContext.java

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -113,6 +114,19 @@ public class JsonContext implements ParseContext, DocumentContext {
         return this;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public DocumentContext parse(URL url) throws IOException {
+        notNull(url, "url can not be null");
+        InputStream fis = null;
+        try {
+            fis = url.openStream();
+            parse(fis);
+        } finally {
+            Utils.closeQuietly(fis);
+        }
+        return this;
+    }
+
     @Override
     public Configuration configuration() {
         return configuration;

json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/DeepScanTest.java

@@ -333,5 +333,4 @@ public class DeepScanTest extends BaseTest {
                 .read("$..array[0]");
         assertThat(result.get(0)).isEqualTo(expected);
     }
-
 }