Fixed logic to handle invalid JSON and return an empty dictionary

[farzadadel92]

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[gjohansson-ST]

PR description is missing the proposed change and what is trying to be fixed here.

[farzadadel92]

There was an issue (#133289) indicating that the JSON result was neither a dictionary nor a list, with the first element not being a dictionary. I modified the logic a bit to handle invalid JSON.

[gjohansson-ST]

I don't get all the changes here since the only thing really done is to change the logging from warning to debug. The rest would be the same result as before.

Secondly it's lacking the argumentation why we should do this change and not warn when it's actually returning an incorrect json?

[farzadadel92]

The main change here improves the logic to handle cases where json_dict is unexpected, like a list without a dictionary as the first element. The previous version could raise runtime errors or log incorrect warnings.

The logging level was changed to debug to reduce noise for non-critical issues. If this should remain a warning, I can adjust it.

If I misunderstood the problem or if something here is incorrect, please let me know!

[gjohansson-ST]

The main change here improves the logic to handle cases where json_dict is unexpected,

That's the thing right, because if you are here, then a json_dict is expected?
You change the logic of the function so because the second if is now an elif instead (so it will break the use of jsonpath) and secondly we change the logging.

I suppose in your case what you want to achieve is to mute the logging when the json path is empty (or something as such)?

Converted the PR to draft while we are discussing.