Valid JsonPath expression $.* on Json Array results in exception

[gorillapower]

Source/destination JSON

[{"item":"two"},{"item":"two"},{"item":"two"}]

Expected behavior

Executing JToken.SelectTokens("$.*") on a valid JSON array should produce multiple JToken results

Actual Behavior

Newtonsoft.Json.JsonException: Property '*' not valid on JArray.
   at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JsonPath.FieldFilter.ExecuteFilter(JToken root, IEnumerable`1 current, JsonSelectSettings settings)+MoveNext()
   at System.Collections.Generic.LargeArrayBuilder…

Repro Steps

https://dotnetfiddle.net/ginhZu

• Net 6.0.0 and 8.0.0
• Newtonsoft.Json 13.0.3

var json = """[{"item":"two"},{"item":"two"},{"item":"two"}]""";
 
var parsed = JToken.Parse(json);
var query = parsed.SelectTokens("$.*",true).ToList();    

Running the same query here https://json-everything.net/json-path produces a valid result.

WorkAround

JsonPath $[*] products the expected result

[elgonzo]

To add to the report, according to the JsonPath draft spec, section 1.4.4, .* is a shorthand/alias for [*]. Therefore, $.* is equivalent to $[*].

However, not only does Newtonsoft.Json implement .* incorrectly, it also implements [*] incorrectly.

Since .* is a shorthand/alias for [*], both .* and [*] should be applicable to objects AND arrays equally. But Newtonsoft.Json treats both .* and [*] differently, in violation of the JsonPath draft spec i linked to above. .* works on objects but incorrectly not on arrays, as the report pointed out. And [*] works on arrays but incorrectly not on objects.

P.S.: While the very first Json draft spec version 00 -- draft-ietf-jsonpath-base-00 -- also already explains the .* semantics in section 3.6.1, the draft spec version 00 seems to lack any formal definition for [*] -- it only mentions

JSONPath allows the wildcard symbol "*" for member names and array indices

in passing. The same mention appears at https://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/, and Newtonsoft.Json therefore seems to also violate the old Goessner draft from 2007 in this respect...