From cc09d922394e176d1211e143f53cc8e80c12e3fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zmarois <zmarois@cimpress.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 14:53:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] treating empty object as null

---
 .../com/github/fge/jsonpatch/operation/TestOperation.java   | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/fge/jsonpatch/operation/TestOperation.java b/src/main/java/com/github/fge/jsonpatch/operation/TestOperation.java
index be324adc..53081a98 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/fge/jsonpatch/operation/TestOperation.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/fge/jsonpatch/operation/TestOperation.java
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
  * to test ({@code path}) and the value to test equality against ({@code
  * value}).</p>
  *
- * <p>It is an error if no value exists at the given path.</p>
+ * <p>It is an error if no value exists at the given path and there is an expected value to test equality against.</p>
  *
  * <p>Also note that equality as defined by JSON Patch is exactly the same as it
  * is defined by JSON Schema itself. As such, this operation reuses {@link
@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ public JsonNode apply(final JsonNode node)
         throws JsonPatchException
     {
         final JsonNode tested = path.path(node);
-        if (tested.isMissingNode())
+        if (tested.isMissingNode() && !value.isNull())
             throw new JsonPatchException(BUNDLE.getMessage(
                 "jsonPatch.noSuchPath"));
-        if (!EQUIVALENCE.equivalent(tested, value))
+        if (!(tested.isMissingNode() && value.isNull()) && !EQUIVALENCE.equivalent(tested, value))
             throw new JsonPatchException(BUNDLE.getMessage(
                 "jsonPatch.valueTestFailure"));
         return node.deepCopy();

From 0b04428a2253b9b394a3f0b2e71328b8114db1a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zmarois <zmarois@cimpress.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 14:54:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Adding tests for treating empty object as null

---
 src/test/resources/jsonpatch/standard/test.json | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/test/resources/jsonpatch/standard/test.json b/src/test/resources/jsonpatch/standard/test.json
index d80f3c60..12a361ed 100644
--- a/src/test/resources/jsonpatch/standard/test.json
+++ b/src/test/resources/jsonpatch/standard/test.json
@@ -14,7 +14,13 @@
             "op": { "op": "test", "path": "/x", "value": -30.000 },
             "node": { "x": -29.020 },
             "message": "jsonPatch.valueTestFailure"
+        },
+        {
+            "op": { "op": "test", "path": "/a/1", "value": null },
+            "node": { "a": [ null, "hello", "world" ] },
+            "message": "jsonPatch.valueTestFailure"
         }
+
     ],
     "ops": [
         {
@@ -26,6 +32,12 @@
             "op": { "op": "test", "path": "/a/1", "value": "hello" },
             "node": { "a": [ null, "hello", "world" ] },
             "expected": { "a": [ null, "hello", "world" ] }
+        },
+        {
+            "op": { "op": "test", "path": "/x", "value": null },
+            "node": 1.00,
+            "expected": 1.00
         }
+
     ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}