From d9a7e80360ac4a266971c4616ff76dab146ded60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jollyjoyce1995 <jollyjoyce1995@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 07:30:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] changed null check in JSONPathMatcher and JmesPathMatcher to
 ensure that the body is not an empty string (the json parse would throw an
 exception at this point) (#1278)

---
 src/WireMock.Net/Matchers/JSONPathMatcher.cs | 2 +-
 src/WireMock.Net/Matchers/JmesPathMatcher.cs | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/WireMock.Net/Matchers/JSONPathMatcher.cs b/src/WireMock.Net/Matchers/JSONPathMatcher.cs
index 21f78ea3..14eccf19 100644
--- a/src/WireMock.Net/Matchers/JSONPathMatcher.cs
+++ b/src/WireMock.Net/Matchers/JSONPathMatcher.cs
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ public class JsonPathMatcher : IStringMatcher, IObjectMatcher
         var score = MatchScores.Mismatch;
         Exception? exception = null;
 
-        if (input != null)
+        if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(input))
         {
             try
             {
diff --git a/src/WireMock.Net/Matchers/JmesPathMatcher.cs b/src/WireMock.Net/Matchers/JmesPathMatcher.cs
index 83b88d19..884ba0ff 100644
--- a/src/WireMock.Net/Matchers/JmesPathMatcher.cs
+++ b/src/WireMock.Net/Matchers/JmesPathMatcher.cs
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ public class JmesPathMatcher : IStringMatcher, IObjectMatcher
         var score = MatchScores.Mismatch;
         Exception? exception = null;
 
-        if (input != null)
+        if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(input))
         {
             try
             {