From 8ad622e6dbceae261f4b976138260aa5e8025c8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitry Vasilenko <dvasilen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:13:05 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Updated JsonProviderFactory to set up default provider.

---
 .../jsonpath/spi/JsonProviderFactory.java      | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/JsonProviderFactory.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/JsonProviderFactory.java
index 8f813181..39d371d9 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/JsonProviderFactory.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/spi/JsonProviderFactory.java
@@ -21,10 +21,23 @@ import com.jayway.jsonpath.spi.impl.JsonSmartJsonProvider;
  */
 public abstract class JsonProviderFactory {
 
+	private static Class defaultProvider = null;
+	
     public static JsonProviderFactory factory = new JsonProviderFactory() {
         @Override
         protected JsonProvider create() {
-            return new JsonSmartJsonProvider();
+			JsonProvider provider = null;
+			try {
+				if(defaultProvider != null) {
+					provider = (JsonProvider)defaultProvider.newInstance();
+				}
+			} catch(Throwable t) {
+			
+			}
+			if(provider == null) {
+				provider = new JsonSmartJsonProvider();
+			}
+			return provider;
             //return new JacksonProvider();
         }
     };
@@ -33,6 +46,9 @@ public abstract class JsonProviderFactory {
         return factory.create();
     }
 
+    public static synchronized void setDefaultProvider(Class<? extends JsonProvider> jsonProvider) {
+        defaultProvider = jsonProvider;
+    }
 
     protected abstract JsonProvider create();