Invalid/undefined keys error out in JSONPath, but not in GVal

[markmaal]

Hey,

Is there a reason why GVal defaults to returning nil if the expression references an undefined data key, but JsonPath errors out?

https://github.com/PaesslerAG/gval/blob/cd026a3dee26df39acddc2292229512c4fa68756/evaluable.go#L133
vs

jsonpath/selector.go

Line 92 in 3484786

if r, ok := o[k]; ok {

As an example,

	g := gval.NewLanguage(
		gval.Full(),
		jsonpath.Language())
	value, err := g.Evaluate(`$.data`, map[string]any{"data": "test"})
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(value)

Results in test; however, if the expression is $.invalidData then we error out:
can not evaluate $.invalidData: unknown key invalidData.

BUT if we just use standard Gval expressions, i.e:

	value, err := g.Evaluate(`invalidData`, map[string]any{"data": "test"})

we get nil as a return value.

The only reason I can think of is to have a distinction between null values and undefined values in JSON (null -> nil, undefined -> error), but we don't always want to error out if the key is undefined, it'd be nice if we could configure this default behavior. I might be missing something here so please let me know if this is the case!