Currently, if we have a complex JSON response from a web request action, we can only do a simple traversing of it using JSON object notation. However, should there be arrays in the response and we need to get a certain array key, that notation wouldn't work unless we use an array index, which is not ideal.

For example, if we want to query Insight object attributes, we can send a request to /jira/rest/insight/1.0/object/33542/attributes and then if we need to get this value from the response:

webhookResponse.body.objectEntries.[0].attributes[?(@.objectTypeAttributeId==3701)].objectAttributeValues[0].user.key

It is not possible to do that like that. Best we could do is to hard code an array index in smart values:

webhookResponse.body.objectAttributeValues.get(4).user.key

But this is far less than ideal.

A4J should support for flexible querying of the JSON data, such as:

• possibility to run JSONPath expressions directly on the webhook response
• possibility to add expressions like "objectTypeAttributeId = xxx" in the smart value syntax.