Extracting all matches for a property path always yields a list

What it means

Extracting all matches never hands back the bare value it found — even where the path can only ever match one thing, the result is still a list, so calling code does not need two shapes depending on what the path looked like. The sharper edge is the null case: a path that reads a stored null does not come back as a one-element list holding that null. Nothing was "found" there as far as extracting all matches is concerned, so it collapses to the same empty list as a path that matched nothing at all.

Example

Extracting all matches for store.name, a path that can only ever match one value:

["Test Store"]

{"key": null}

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