From dfe248c002e3817a3e9df53ed05f7f46e0e3d49b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Singleton <git@jacksingleton.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:19:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Changed behavior of FieldFilter to throw InvalidPathException
 instead of returning null when a field is queried for on a json array

---
 .../java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/FieldFilter.java   | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/FieldFilter.java b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/FieldFilter.java
index 13a5998f..3fc1b520 100644
--- a/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/FieldFilter.java
+++ b/json-path/src/main/java/com/jayway/jsonpath/internal/filter/FieldFilter.java
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ public class FieldFilter extends PathTokenFilter {
     public Object filter(Object obj, JsonProvider jsonProvider, LinkedList<Filter> filters, boolean inArrayContext) {
         if (jsonProvider.isList(obj)) {
             if (!inArrayContext) {
-                return null;
+                throw new InvalidPathException("Trying to access field on array");
             } else {
                 List<Object> result = jsonProvider.createList();
                 for (Object current : jsonProvider.toList(obj)) {