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Aakash Pradeep edited comment on PHOENIX-1710 at 4/16/15 7:52 PM:
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IMHO we should make this method more universal and applicable to read any data.
I looked into the corresponding method definition in Postgres and Amazon
RedShift (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/json-functions.html)
and what I observed that using this method we can only read the json for a
given key, it would not allow us to read json inside a json array and to read
json array we have to design a separate method like
json_extract_array_element_text('json string', pos) which in case of complex
json will be very difficult for user.
Instead we can define this method to be generic to read any data inside a json.
What I mean by that is to define a pattern to provide json path, so that we can
define both key and array index. I am proposing this pattern to specify array
index :
json_extract_path(json_column , ARRAY[ 'key1','key2', '[<index>]' ,
'key_inside_array' , '[<index>]')
if the given path start with '[' and end with ']' that means it is referring to
read an index.
So for reading "phone numbers of Jimmy's second contact" from this example
json , we can write
json_extact_path_text(contacts_json,
ARRAY['[1]','person','contacts','[2]','phone']) and it should return "[
956-XXX-YYYY,
898-XXX-YYYY
]"
Example json
---------------------
[
{
"person": {
"name": "jimmy",
"address": {
"street": "1st market street",
"city": "San Franciso",
"zipcode": "945001"
},
"email": "[email protected]",
"phone": [
9567686788,
8988986785
],
"contacts": [
{
"person": {
"name": "sam",
"address": {
"street": "1st market street",
"city": "San Franciso",
"zipcode": "945001"
},
"email": "[email protected]",
"phone": [
956-XXX-YYYY,
898-XXX-YYYY
]
}
},
{
"person": {
"name": "doug",
"address": {
"street": "1st market street",
"city": "San Franciso",
"zipcode": "945001"
},
"email": "[email protected]",
"phone": [
9567686788,
8988986785
]
}
}
]
}
}
]
was (Author: aakash.pradeep):
IMHO we should make this method more universal and applicable to read any data.
I looked into the corresponding method definition in Postgres and Amazon
RedShift (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/json-functions.html)
and what I observed that using this method we can only read the json for a
given key, it would not allow us to read json inside a json array and to read
json array we have to design a separate method like
json_extract_array_element_text('json string', pos) which in case of complex
json will be very difficult for user.
Instead we can define this method to be generic to read any data inside a json.
What I mean by that is to define a pattern to provide json path, so that we can
define both key and array index. I am proposing this pattern to specify array
index :
json_extract_path(json_column , ARRAY[ 'key1','key2', '[<index>]' ,
'key_inside_array' , '[<index>]')
if the given path start with '[' and end with ']' that means it is referring to
read an index.
So for reading "phone numbers of Jimmy's second contact" from this example
json , we can write
json_extact_path_text(contacts_json,
ARRAY['[1]','person','contacts','[2]','phone']) and it should return "[
956-XXX-YYYY,
898-XXX-YYYY
]"
[
{
"person": {
"name": "jimmy",
"address": {
"street": "1st market street",
"city": "San Franciso",
"zipcode": "945001"
},
"email": "[email protected]",
"phone": [
9567686788,
8988986785
],
"contacts": [
{
"person": {
"name": "sam",
"address": {
"street": "1st market street",
"city": "San Franciso",
"zipcode": "945001"
},
"email": "[email protected]",
"phone": [
956-XXX-YYYY,
898-XXX-YYYY
]
}
},
{
"person": {
"name": "doug",
"address": {
"street": "1st market street",
"city": "San Franciso",
"zipcode": "945001"
},
"email": "[email protected]",
"phone": [
9567686788,
8988986785
]
}
}
]
}
}
]
> Implement the json_extract_path_text built-in function
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PHOENIX-1710
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PHOENIX-1710
> Project: Phoenix
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Reporter: James Taylor
> Assignee: NIsala Niroshana
>
> Implement the json_extract_path_text modeled after the Postgres function.
> This function returns JSON pointed to by the path elements argument. In
> Phoenix, it could be implemented like this:
> {code}
> VARCHAR json_extract_path_text (VARCHAR json, VARCHAR ARRAY path_elems paths)
> {code}
> For example:
> {code}
> SELECT json_extract_path_text(json_col, ARRAY['f4','f6']) FROM my_table;
> {code}
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