Issue #191 is a bug - supports result set functions via patterns such as $.max($..allTheNumberThings)

$.max($.foo, $.bar) is already supported - consiquently $.max($..allTheNumberThings) should also work.

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

@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 package com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.function;
 
+import com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.EvaluationContext;
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.Path;
 import com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.function.latebinding.ILateBindingValue;
-import com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.function.latebinding.PathLateBindingValue;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
 
 /**
- * Created by matt@mjgreenwood.net on 12/10/15.
+ * Defines a parameter as passed to a function with late binding support for lazy evaluation.
  */
 public class Parameter {
     private ParamType type;
@@ -65,4 +69,63 @@ public class Parameter {
     public void setJson(String json) {
         this.json = json;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Translate the collection of parameters into a collection of values of type T.
+     *
+     * @param type
+     *      The type to translate the collection into.
+     *
+     * @param ctx
+     *      Context.
+     *
+     * @param parameters
+     *      Collection of parameters.
+     *
+     * @param <T>
+     *      Type T returned as a List of T.
+     *
+     * @return
+     *      List of T either empty or containing contents.
+     */
+    public static <T> List<T> toList(final Class<T> type, final EvaluationContext ctx, final List<Parameter> parameters) {
+        List<T> values = new ArrayList();
+        if (null != parameters) {
+            for (Parameter param : parameters) {
+                consume(type, ctx, values, param.getValue());
+            }
+        }
+        return values;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Either consume the object as an array and add each element to the collection, or alternatively add each element
+     *
+     * @param expectedType
+     *      the expected class type to consume, if null or not of this type the element is not added to the array.
+     *
+     * @param ctx
+     *      the JSON context to determine if this is an array or value.
+     *
+     * @param collection
+     *      The collection to append into.
+     *
+     * @param value
+     *      The value to evaluate.
+     */
+    public static void consume(Class expectedType, EvaluationContext ctx, Collection collection, Object value) {
+        if (ctx.configuration().jsonProvider().isArray(value)) {
+            for (Object o : ctx.configuration().jsonProvider().toIterable(value)) {
+                if (o != null && expectedType.isAssignableFrom(o.getClass())) {
+                    collection.add(o);
+                } else if (o != null && expectedType == String.class) {
+                    collection.add(o.toString());
+                }
+            }
+        } else {
+            if (value != null && expectedType.isAssignableFrom(value.getClass())) {
+                collection.add(value);
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }

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

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import java.util.Map;
  * Leverages the function's name in order to determine which function to execute which is maintained internally
  * here via a static map
  *
- * Created by mattg on 6/27/15.
  */
 public class PathFunctionFactory {
 

json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/function/numeric/AbstractAggregation.java

@@ -48,12 +48,9 @@ public abstract class AbstractAggregation implements PathFunction {
             }
         }
         if (parameters != null) {
-            for (Parameter param : parameters) {
+            for (Number value : Parameter.toList(Number.class, ctx, parameters)) {
-                Object value = param.getValue();
+                count++;
-                if (null != value && value instanceof Number) {
+                next(value);
-                    count++;
-                    next((Number)value);
-                }
             }
         }
         if (count != 0) {

json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/function/text/Concatenate.java

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import java.util.List;
  * String function concat - simple takes a list of arguments and/or an array and concatenates them together to form a
  * single string
  *
- * Created by mgreenwood on 12/11/15.
  */
 public class Concatenate implements PathFunction {
     @Override
@@ -26,11 +25,8 @@ public class Concatenate implements PathFunction {
             }
         }
         if (parameters != null) {
-            for (Parameter param : parameters) {
+            for (String value : Parameter.toList(String.class, ctx, parameters)) {
-		Object value = param.getValue();
+                result.append(value);
-                if (value != null) {
-                    result.append(value.toString());
-                }
             }
         }
         return result.toString();

json-path/src/test/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/function/Issue191.java

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.function;
+
+import com.jayway.jsonpath.Configuration;
+import com.jayway.jsonpath.Configurations;
+import com.jayway.jsonpath.JsonPath;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+/**
+ * TDD for Issue 191
+ *
+ * Shows aggregation across fields rather than within a single entity.
+ *
+ */
+public class Issue191 extends com.jayway.jsonpath.internal.function.BaseFunctionTest {
+
+    private Configuration conf = Configurations.GSON_CONFIGURATION;
+
+    @Test
+    public void testResultSetNumericComputation() {
+        InputStream stream = ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("issue_191.json");
+        Long value = JsonPath.parse(stream).read("$.max($..timestamp)", Long.class);
+        assertEquals("Expected the max function to consume the aggregation parameters and calculate the max over the result set",
+                Long.valueOf(1427310341), value);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testConcatResultSet() {
+        InputStream stream = ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("issue_191.json");
+        String concatResult = JsonPath.parse(stream).read("$.concat($..state)", String.class);
+        assertEquals("Expected a string length to be a concat of all of the states", concatResult.length(), 806);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testConcatWithNumericValueAsString() {
+        InputStream stream = ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("issue_191.json");
+        String concatResult = JsonPath.parse(stream).read("$.concat($..cpus)", String.class);
+        assertEquals("Expected a string length to be a concat of all of the cpus", concatResult.length(), 489);
+    }
+}