diff --git a/fastjson1-compatible/src/main/java/com/alibaba/fastjson/JSONPath.java b/fastjson1-compatible/src/main/java/com/alibaba/fastjson/JSONPath.java
index 5e04ff9302..cf444bc22a 100644
--- a/fastjson1-compatible/src/main/java/com/alibaba/fastjson/JSONPath.java
+++ b/fastjson1-compatible/src/main/java/com/alibaba/fastjson/JSONPath.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import com.alibaba.fastjson.util.TypeUtils;
 import com.alibaba.fastjson2.JSONReader;
 
+
 import java.lang.reflect.Type;
 import java.util.Map;
 
@@ -52,6 +53,11 @@ public static Object eval(Object rootObject, String path) {
         return jsonPath.eval(rootObject);
     }
 
+    public static Object eval(String rootObject, String path) {
+        com.alibaba.fastjson2.JSONPath jsonPath = com.alibaba.fastjson2.JSONPath.of(path);
+        return jsonPath.extract(rootObject);
+    }
+
     public static boolean set(Object rootObject, String path, Object value) {
         com.alibaba.fastjson2.JSONPath jsonPath = com.alibaba.fastjson2.JSONPath.of(path);
         jsonPath.setReaderContext(JSON.createReadContext(JSON.DEFAULT_PARSER_FEATURE));
diff --git a/fastjson1-compatible/src/test/java/com/alibaba/fastjson/issue_2300/Issue2387Test.java b/fastjson1-compatible/src/test/java/com/alibaba/fastjson/issue_2300/Issue2387Test.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..70fbf453f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fastjson1-compatible/src/test/java/com/alibaba/fastjson/issue_2300/Issue2387Test.java
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+package com.alibaba.fastjson.issue_2300;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
+import com.alibaba.fastjson.JSONPath;
+
+public class Issue2387Test {
+    @Test
+    public void test_for_issue() throws Exception {
+        String data = "{\"userName\":\"testname\"}";
+        Object userName1 = JSONPath.eval(data, "$.userName");
+        assertEquals(userName1, "testname");
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void test_not_matching() {
+        String data = "{\"userName\":\"testname\"}";
+        Object userName1 = JSONPath.eval(data, "$.userName");
+        assertNotEquals(userName1, "testname1");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void test_null() throws Exception {
+        String data = "{\"userName\":null}";
+        Object userName1 = JSONPath.eval(data, "$.userName");
+        assertNull(userName1);
+    }
+}