Parsing JSON in Snowflake - sql

I'm trying to parse a the below nested JSON in Snowflake using the latteral function in Snowflake but I wanted to each nested column in "GoalTime" to show up as a column. For example,
GoalTime_InDoorOpen
2020-03-26T12:58:00-04:00
GoalTime_InLastOff
null
GoalTime_OutStartBoarding
2020-03-27T14:00:00-04:00
"GoalTime": [
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_InDoorOpen",
"GoalTime": "2020-03-26T12:58:00-04:00"
},
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_InLastOff"
},
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_InReadyToTow"
},
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_OutTowAtGate"
},
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_OutStartBoarding",
"GoalTime": "2020-03-27T14:00:00-04:00"
},

or if you have many rows (what appear to be flights) and thus you need to columns per flight this code be what you are after
with data as (
select flight_code, parse_json(json) as json from values ('nz101','{GoalTime:[{"GoalName": "GoalA", "GoalTime": "2020-03-26T12:58:00-04:00"}, {"GoalName": "GoalB"}]}'),
('nz201','{GoalTime:[{"GoalName": "GoalA"}, {"GoalName": "GoalB", "GoalTime": "2020-03-26T12:58:00-02:00"}]}')
j(flight_code, json)
), unrolled as (
select d.flight_code, f.value:GoalName as goal_name, f.value:GoalTime as goal_time
from data d,
lateral flatten (input => json:GoalTime) f
)
select *
from unrolled
pivot(min(goal_time) for goal_name in ('GoalA', 'GoalB'))
order by flight_code;
it gives the results:
FLIGHT_CODE 'GoalA' 'GoalB'
nz101 "2020-03-26T12:58:00-04:00" null
nz201 null "2020-03-26T12:58:00-02:00"

create or replace function JSON_STRING()
returns string
language javascript
as
$$
return `
[
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_InDoorOpen",
"GoalTime": "2020-03-26T12:58:00-04:00"
},
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_InLastOff"
},
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_InReadyToTow"
},
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_OutTowAtGate"
},
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_OutStartBoarding",
"GoalTime": "2020-03-27T14:00:00-04:00"
}
]
`;
$$;
select value:GoalName::string as GoalName, value:GoalTime::timestamp as GoalTime
from lateral flatten(input => parse_json(JSON_STRING()));
-- See how the lateral flatten combination works on a JSON variant:
select * from lateral flatten(input => parse_json(JSON_STRING()));
I wrote this to run in any Snowflake worksheet, no tables needed. The function on top simply allows the JSON to be written as a multi-line string in the SQL statement below it. It has no other use than representing a string holding your JSON.
Step 1 is to PARSE_JSON, which converts a string into a variant data type formatted as a JSON object.
Step 2 is the lateral flatten. If you do a select star on that, it will return a number of columns. One of them is "value".
Step 3 is to extract the properties you want using single : notation for the property name and dots to traverse down the nodes from there (if there are any).
Step 4 is to cast the property to the data type you want using double :: notation. This is especially important if you're doing comparisons on the column particularly in join keys.
Note that there's a slight invalid part of the JSON that did not allow it to parse. In the top level the array had a property, which did not parse. I removed that to allow parsing.

Probably close to what you seek is using a standard SQL UNION statement.
Given the following are true to recreate the solution:
Created a table 'JSON_GOALS' with one column for raw JSON called, GOALS_RAW
You have loaded JSON data into a table as the raw JSON, with compliant JSON object array syntax, and a parent, GoalTimeGroup, ex: {[{}]}, so
{
"GoalTimeGroup": [{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_InDoorOpen",
"GoalTime": "2020-03-26T12:58:00-04:00"
},
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_InLastOff"
},
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_InReadyToTow"
},
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_OutTowAtGate"
},
{
"GoalName": "GoalTime_OutStartBoarding",
"GoalTime": "2020-03-27T14:00:00-04:00"
}
]
}
Doing so allows you to write a fairly standard JSON retrieve in Snowflake with the following syntax:
SELECT GOALS_RAW:GoalTimeGroup[0].GoalName, GOALS_RAW:GoalTimeGroup[1].GoalName, GOALS_RAW:GoalTimeGroup[2].GoalName
FROM JSON_GOALS
UNION
SELECT GOALS_RAW:GoalTimeGroup[0].GoalTime, GOALS_RAW:GoalTimeGroup[1].GoalTime, GOALS_RAW:GoalTimeGroup[2].GoalName
FROM JSON_GOALS
;
This gives you closer to the answer you are looking for and seems to provide a simpler solution. You can also control how many rows you'd want based on your JSON object attributes for each GOAL object.
Recommendations to enhance this would be to create a function that could detect the depth of each nested element and perhaps auto generate the indexes for 'n' number of columns.

The library below provides a method called "ExecuteAll" which one of the params is "tags", so if you provide an array of tags and values, all of them will be parsed and validated plus keeping the features of the sql injection protection from Snowflake.
snowflake-multisql

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How to extract a field from an array of JSON objects in AWS Athena?

I have the following JSON data structure in a column in AWS Athena:
[
{
"event_type": "application_state_transition",
"data": {
"event_id": "-3368023833341021830"
}
},
{
"event_type": "application_state_transition",
"data": {
"event_id": "5692882176024811076"
}
}
]
I would like to somehow extract the values of event_id field, e.g. in the form of a list:
["-3368023833341021830", "5692882176024811076"]
(Though I don't insist on exactly this as long as I can get my event IDs.)
I wanted to use the JSON_EXTRACT function and thought it uses the very same syntax as jq. In jq, I can easily get what I want using the following query syntax:
.[].data.event_id
However, in AWS Athena this results in an error, as apparently the syntax is not entirely compatible with jq. Is there an alternative way to achieve the result I want?
JSON_EXTRACT supports quite limited set of json paths. Depending on Athena engine version you can either process column by casting it to array of maps and processing this array via array functions:
-- sample data
with dataset(json_col) as (
values ('[
{
"event_type": "application_state_transition",
"data": {
"event_id": "-3368023833341021830"
}
},
{
"event_type": "application_state_transition",
"data": {
"event_id": "5692882176024811076"
}
}
]')
)
-- query
select transform(
cast(json_parse(json_col) as array(map(varchar, json))),
m -> json_extract(m['data'], '$.event_id'))
from dataset;
Output:
_col0
["-3368023833341021830", "5692882176024811076"]
Or for 3rd Athena engine version you can try using Trino's json_query:
-- query
select JSON_QUERY(json_col, 'lax $[*].data.event_id' WITH ARRAY WRAPPER)
from dataset;
Note that return type of two will differ - in first case you will have array(json) and in the second one - just varchar.

Oracle SQL JSON_QUERY ignore key field

I have a json with several keys being a number instead of a fixed string. Is there any way I could bypass them in order to access the nested values?
{
"55568509":{
"registers":{
"001":{
"isPlausible":false,
"deviceNumber":"55501223",
"register":"001",
"readingValue":"5295",
"readingDate":"2021-02-25T00:00:00.000Z"
}
}
}
}
My expected output here would be 5295, but since 59668509 can vary from json to json, JSON_QUERY(data, '$."59668509".registers."001".readingValue) would not be an option. I'm not able to use regexp here because this is only a part of the original json, which contains more than this.
UPDATE: full json with multiple occurrences:
This is how my whole json looks like. I would like all the readingValue in brackets, in the example below, my expected output would be [32641, 00964].
WITH test_table ( data ) AS (
SELECT
'{
"session":{
"sessionStartDate":"2021-02-26T12:03:34+0000",
"interactionDate":"2021-02-26T12:04:19+0000",
"sapGuid":"369F01DFXXXXXXXXXX8553F40CE282B3",
"agentId":"USER001",
"channel":"XXX",
"bpNumber":"5551231234",
"contractAccountNumber":"55512312345",
"contactDirection":"",
"contactMethod":"Z08",
"interactionId":"5550848784",
"isResponsibleForPayingBill":"Yes"
},
"payload":{
"agentId":"USER001",
"contractAccountNumber":"55512312345",
"error":{
"55549271":{
"registers":{
"001":{
"isPlausible":false,
"deviceNumber":"55501223",
"register":"001",
"readingValue":"32641",
"readingDate":"2021-02-26T00:00:00.000Z"
}
},
"errors":[
{
"contractNumber":"55501231",
"language":"EN",
"errorCode":"62",
"errorText":"Error Text1",
"isHardError":false
},
{
"contractNumber":"55501232",
"language":"EN",
"errorCode":"62",
"errorText":"Error Text2",
"isHardError":false
}
],
"bpNumber":"5557273667"
},
"55583693":{
"registers":{
"001":{
"isPlausible":false,
"deviceNumber":"555121212",
"register":"001",
"readingValue":"00964",
"readingDate":"2021-02-26T00:00:00.000Z"
}
},
"errors":[
],
"bpNumber":"555123123"
}
}
}
}'
FROM
dual
)
SELECT
JSON_QUERY(data, '$.payload.error.*.registers.*[*].readingValue') AS reading_value
FROM
test_table;
UPDATE 2:
Solved, this would do the trick, upvoting the first comment.
JSON_QUERY(data, '$.payload.error.*.registers.*.readingValue' WITH WRAPPER) AS read_value
As I explained in the comment to your question, if you are getting that result from the JSON you posted, you are not using JSON_QUERY(); you must be using JSON_VALUE(). Either that, or there's something else you didn't share with us.
In any case, let's say you are using JSON_VALUE() with the arguments you showed. You are asking, how can you modify the path so that the top-level attribute name is not hard-coded. That is trivial: use asterisk (*) instead of the hard-coded name. (This would work the same with JSON_QUERY() - it's about JSON paths, not the specific function that uses them.)
with test_table (data) as (
select
'{
"59668509":{
"registers":{
"001":{
"isPlausible":false,
"deviceNumber":"40157471",
"register":"001",
"readingValue":"5295",
"readingDate":"2021-02-25T00:00:00.000Z"
}
}
}
}' from dual
)
select json_value (data, '$.*."registers"."001"."readingValue"'
returning number) as reading_value
from test_table
;
READING_VALUE
-------------
5295
As an aside that is not related to your question in any way: In your JSON you have an object with a single attribute named "registers", whose value is another object with a single attribute "001", and in turn, this object has an attribute named "register" with value "001". Does that make sense to you? It doesn't to me.

JSON query to extract all ids where array is not empty

I have a JSON structure similar to this:
{
"id":"1234"
"feedback": {
"Features": []
}
}
I wish to find all the documents where Features is not an empty array.
This is what I have tried:
SELECT * FROM c where ARRAY_LENGTH([c.feedback.Features])> 0
I am not sure if this is the correct approach. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Your query would not work fine and still return the document in below JSON you provided:
{
"id":"1234"
"feedback": {
"Features": []
}
}
Would suggest to use the query like below. This will cover when there are zero items present in 'Feature' attribute as well as if 'Feature' attribute is missing altogether.
SELECT * FROM c where ARRAY_LENGTH([c.feedback.Features[0]]) > 0
It should work if you exclude the surrounding brackets from the property path:
SELECT * FROM c where ARRAY_LENGTH(c.feedback.Features) > 0

How to select specific fields on FaunaDB Query Language?

I can't find anything about how to do this type of query in FaunaDB. I need to select only specifics fields from a document, not all fields. I can select one field using Select function, like below:
serverClient.query(
q.Map(
q.Paginate(q.Documents(q.Collection('products')), {
size: 12,
}),
q.Lambda('X', q.Select(['data', 'title'], q.Get(q.Var('X'))))
)
)
Forget the selectAll function, it's deprecated.
You can also return an object literal like this:
serverClient.query(
q.Map(
q.Paginate(q.Documents(q.Collection('products')), {
size: 12,
}),
q.Lambda(
'X',
{
title: q.Select(['data', 'title'], q.Get(q.Var('X')),
otherField: q.Select(['data', 'other'], q.Get(q.Var('X'))
}
)
)
)
Also you are missing the end and beginning quotation marks in your question at ['data, title']
One way to achieve this would be to create an index that returns the values required. For example, if using the shell:
CreateIndex({
name: "<name of index>",
source: Collection("products"),
values: [
{ field: ["data", "title"] },
{ field: ["data", "<another field name>"] }
]
})
Then querying that index would return you the fields defined in the values of the index.
Map(
Paginate(
Match(Index("<name of index>"))
),
Lambda("product", Var("product"))
)
Although these examples are to be used in the shell, they can easily be used in code by adding a q. in front of each built-in function.

MongoDB like statement with multiple fields

With SQL we can do the following :
select * from x where concat(x.y ," ",x.z) like "%find m%"
when x.y = "find" and x.z = "me".
How do I do the same thing with MongoDB, When I use a JSON structure similar to this:
{
data:
[
{
id:1,
value : "find"
},
{
id:2,
value : "me"
}
]
}
The comparison to SQL here is not valid since no relational database has the same concept of embedded arrays that MongoDB has, and is provided in your example. You can only "concat" between "fields in a row" of a table. Basically not the same thing.
You can do this with the JavaScript evaluation of $where, which is not optimal, but it's a start. And you can add some extra "smarts" to the match as well with caution:
db.collection.find({
"$or": [
{ "data.value": /^f/ },
{ "data.value": /^m/ }
],
"$where": function() {
var items = [];
this.data.forEach(function(item) {
items.push(item.value);
});
var myString = items.join(" ");
if ( myString.match(/find m/) != null )
return 1;
}
})
So there you go. We optimized this a bit by taking the first characters from your "test string" in each word and compared the tokens to each element of the array in the document.
The next part "concatenates" the array elements into a string and then does a "regex" comparison ( same as "like" ) on the concatenated result to see if it matches. Where it does then the document is considered a match and returned.
Not optimal, but these are the options available to MongoDB on a structure like this. Perhaps the structure should be different. But you don't specify why you want this so we can't advise a better solution to what you want to achieve.