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Accepts an expression containing a JSON document, a JSON path expression, and an optional path syntax. If the key specified in the JSON path exists, JSON_EXTRACT returns the sub-JSON document at the specified path, and otherwise, returns NULL.

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Syntax

JSON_EXTRACT
(<json>, <json_path_expression>, path_syntax => <path_syntax>)

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Aliases

JSON_POINTER_EXTRACT
(<json>, <json_path_expression>) ->
JSON_EXTRACT(<json>, <json_path_expression>, path_syntax => 'JSONPointer')

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Parameters

ParameterDescriptionSupported input types
<json>The JSON document.TEXT
<json_path_expression>A JSON path that specifies the location of the desired sub-document within the JSON document.TEXT
<path_syntax>The expected syntax of the <json_path_expression>, currently supports only the ‘JSONPointer’ syntax. For more information, see JSON pointer expression syntax.TEXT

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Return Type

TEXT
  • If any input values are NULL, the function will return NULL.

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Examples

For the JSON document indicated by <json_common_example> below, see JSON common example. The returned result is based on the following example. Example The following code example extracts the value at the path /value/dyid from the JSON document represented by <json_common_example> using the JSONPointer syntax: 
SELECT JSON_EXTRACT(<json_common_example>, '/value/dyid', 'JSONPointer')
Returns The previous example returns “987” because the key dyid is associated with the value 987 within the value object, and the function retrieves and returns this value as a string. Example The following code example attempts to extract a value from the path /value/no_such_key in the JSON document represented by <json_common_example>: 
SELECT JSON_EXTRACT(<json_common_example>, '/value/no_such_key', 'JSONPointer')
Returns The previous code example returns NULL because the key no_such_key does not exist. Example The following code example extracts the value at the path /value/uid from the JSON document represented by <json_common_example>: 
SELECT JSON_POINTER_EXTRACT(<json_common_example>, '/value/uid')
Returns The previous code example returns '"987654"' because the value associated with the uid key in the JSON document is the string 987654. The function retrieves this value with double quotes, indicating it’s a JSON string. Example The following code example extracts the value at the path /value/keywords from the JSON document represented by <json_common_example>: 
SELECT JSON_POINTER_EXTRACT(<json_common_example>,'/value/keywords')
Returns The previous code example returns the array ["insanely","fast","analytics"] that is associated with the keywords key. Example The following code example extracts the third element at index 2 from the array located at the path /value/keywords in the JSON document represented by <json_common_example>: 
SELECT JSON_POINTER_EXTRACT(<json_common_example>,'/value/keywords/2')
Returns The previous code example returns '"analytics"' because it accesses the third element in the JSON array, which uses zero-based indexing.
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