Hi, Sergey! NULL is the correct standard behavior. I don't see what syntax extension we can use to return json object. So, I'd suggest to create a new MDEV and discuss the approaches there. On Jun 22, Sergey Petrunia wrote:

Hi Alexey and everyone,

I was looking at whether it's possible use JSON_TABLE to extract portions of JSON document. Apparently it is possible in MySQL with JSON datatype:

Q1: select * from json_table('[{"color": "blue", "price": { "high": 10, "low": 5}}, {"color": "red", "price": { "high": 20, "low": 8}}]', '$[*]' columns(color varchar(100) path '$.color', price json path '$.price' ) ) as T; +-------+------------------------+ | color | price | +-------+------------------------+ | blue | {"low": 5, "high": 10} | | red | {"low": 8, "high": 20} | +-------+------------------------+

Note that if one uses any datatype other than JSON, they get NULLs:

Q2: select * from json_table('[{"color": "blue", "price": { "high": 10, "low": 5}}, {"color": "red", "price": { "high": 20, "low": 8}}]', '$[*]' columns(color varchar(100) path '$.color', price text path '$.price' ) ) as T; +-------+-------+ | color | price | +-------+-------+ | blue | NULL | | red | NULL | +-------+-------+

Oracle-the-database doesn't yet(*) have a JSON datatype. So I can only run Q2 and then I get NULLs in the price column.

MariaDB accepts JSON as datatype so query Q1 is accepted. However the logic in MDEV-17399 code doesn't have support for dumping a portion of JSON document, so one gets empty strings in the price column.

Should we support Q1 with JSON output in the price column? If yes, should we do it within the scope of MDEV-17399 or create another task for this?

(*) I see this: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/20/newft/new-json... BR Sergei -- Sergei Petrunia, Software Developer MariaDB Corporation | Skype: sergefp | Blog: http://s.petrunia.net/blog

Regards, Sergei VP of MariaDB Server Engineering and security@mariadb.org