Do not check elements of the array

Author: patveck

jsr-353/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/JsonPatchDeserializer.java

@@ -8,10 +8,7 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.LogicalType;
 
 import javax.json.Json;
-import javax.json.JsonArray;
 import javax.json.JsonPatch;
-import javax.json.JsonValue;
-import javax.json.JsonValue.ValueType;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
 public class JsonPatchDeserializer extends StdDeserializer<JsonPatch> {
@@ -31,18 +28,9 @@ public LogicalType logicalType() {
     @Override
     public JsonPatch deserialize(JsonParser p, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException {
         if (p.currentToken() != JsonToken.START_ARRAY) {
-            throw getException(p, p.getText());
+            throw InvalidFormatException.from(p, "JSON patch has to be an array of objects", p.getText(),
+                handledType());
         }
-        final JsonArray patch = jsonValueDeser._deserializeArray(p, ctxt);
-        for (final JsonValue element : patch.getValuesAs(JsonValue.class)) {
-            if (element.getValueType() != ValueType.OBJECT) {
-                throw getException(p, element.toString());
-            }
-        }
-        return Json.createPatch(patch);
-    }
-
-    private InvalidFormatException getException(final JsonParser p, final String value) {
-        return InvalidFormatException.from(p, "JSON patch has to be an array of objects", value, handledType());
+        return Json.createPatch(jsonValueDeser._deserializeArray(p, ctxt));
     }
 }

jsr-353/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/JsonPatchDeserializationTest.java

@@ -54,21 +54,6 @@ public void testArrayOfObjectsDeserializationAndPatching() throws Exception {
         assertThat(patchedPerson, is(new Person("Json", "Smith")));
     }
 
-    public void testArrayWithOScalarDeserializationAndPatching()  {
-        final String json = "[" +
-            "{" +
-            "\"op\":\"replace\"," +
-            "\"path\":\"/name\"," +
-            "\"value\":\"Json\"" +
-            "}," +
-            "\"Jackson\"" +
-            "]";
-
-        final InvalidFormatException ex = assertThrows(InvalidFormatException.class,
-            () -> MAPPER.readValue(json, JsonPatch.class));
-        assertThat(ex.getMessage(), containsString(EXPECTED_MESSAGE));
-    }
-
     public void testObjectDeserializationAndPatching() {
         final String json = "{" +
             "\"op\":\"replace\"," +