Available in versions: Dev (3.19) | Latest (3.18)

JSON object attribute access with -> or ->>

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

JSON object attributes can be accessed by key as follows:

SELECT 
  '{"a":1}'::json->'a'
create.select(jsonGetAttribute(json("{\"a\":1}"), "a"))
      .fetch();

The result would look like this:

+--------------------+
| json_get_attribute |
+--------------------+
| 1                  | 
+--------------------+

The API is PostgreSQL inspired, and as such, there are two ways of accessing attributes:

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

jsonGetAttribute(json("{\"a\":1}"), "a")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, POSTGRES, YUGABYTEDB
(CAST('{"a":1}' AS json)->'a')

-- DB2
coalesce(
  json_query(
    '{"a":1}',
    ('$.' || CAST('a' AS varchar(3998)))
  ),
  nvl2(
    json_query(
      '{"a":1}',
      ('$.' || CAST('a' AS varchar(3998))) EMPTY ARRAY ON EMPTY
    ),
    NULL,
    'null'
  )
)

-- MARIADB, MYSQL
json_extract(
  '{"a":1}',
  concat('$.', 'a')
)

-- ORACLE
json_query(
  '{"a":1}',
  '$.a'
)

-- SNOWFLAKE
get(parse_json('{"a":1}'), 'a')

-- SQLITE
('{"a":1}'->'a')

-- TRINO
json_extract(
  json_parse('{"a":1}'),
  ('$.' || 'a')
)

-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, BIGQUERY, DERBY, DUCKDB, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, MEMSQL, REDSHIFT, 
-- SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, TERADATA, VERTICA
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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