ClassCastException when deleting missing path in specific circumstances

[binokkio]

Summary
When deleting a missing path from a DocumentContext coming from a Configuration with the Option.SUPPRESS_EXCEPTIONS and the GsonJsonProvider, JacksonJsonNodeJsonProvider, JettisonProvider, JsonOrgJsonProvider or TapestryJsonProvider, a ClassCastException is thrown. The other modification methods, set, add, renameKey and put, might be affected too.

Steps to reproduce

Configuration configuration = Configuration.builder()
        .jsonProvider(new JacksonJsonNodeJsonProvider())
        .options(Option.SUPPRESS_EXCEPTIONS)
        .build();

DocumentContext documentContext = JsonPath.parse("{}", configuration);

documentContext.delete("$..this..path..is..missing");  // this throws a ClassCastException

[ben-manes]

I saw this regression too when trying to upgrade from 2.6