Example use: (example object from csonv.js)

dat=[
    {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "To Kill an Angry Bird",
        "author": {
            "id": 1,
            "name": "Harper Lee",
            "written_books": [
                {
                    "$ref": "$[0]"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "The Rabbit",
        "author": {
            "id": 2,
            "name": "JRR Tolkien",
            "written_books": [
                {
                    "$ref": "$[1]"
                },
                {
                    "id": 4,
                    "name": "The Lord of the Things",
                    "author": {
                        "$ref": "$[1][\"author\"]"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "id": 3,
        "name": "Parslet",
        "author": {
            "id": 3,
            "name": "William Shakespeare",
            "written_books": [
                {
                    "$ref": "$[2]"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    {
        "$ref": "$[1][\"author\"][\"written_books\"][1]"
    },
    {
        "id": 5,
        "name": "The Michelangelo Code",
        "author": {
            "id": 4,
            "name": "Dan Brown",
            "written_books": [
                {
                    "$ref": "$[4]"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
]

jsonQuery(dat).select("author.id").where("name").like("To").get()

Built to be used with csonv.js library (https://github.com/archan937/csonv.js)

How to extend: jsonQuery.test.has=function(a,b){ return a[b]; }