Spring Expression Language to search anywhere in the object graph

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In Spring Expression Language is it possible to perform an exhaustive search on an object graph and return the first node matching?

For example,

BookingEvent event = getEvent();
ExpressionParser parser = new SpelExpressionParser();
Expression exp = parser.parseExpression("metadata.bookerInfo.traveler.userBusinessInfo.employeeId");
Assertions.assertEquals("EM1", exp.getValue(event));

The above one works but in SpEL can I write an expression to find the employeedId anywhere under metadata or anywhere in the event object?

If yes, is it possible to return all employeeIds instead only the first one?

I am using spring-boot 3.0.11

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