Postgres - query JSON column value of nested object - sql

I'm using following schema for the JSONB column of my table (named fields). There are several of these field entries.
{
"FIELD_NAME": {
"value" : "FIELD_VALUE",
"meta": {
"indexable": true
}
}
}
I need to find all the fields that contain this object
"meta": {
"indexable": true
}
Here is a naive attempt at having json_object_keys in where clause, which doesn't work, but illustrates what I'm trying to do.
with entry(fields) as (values('{
"login": {
"value": "fred",
"meta": {
"indexable": true
}
},
"password_hash": {
"value": "88a3d1c7463d428f0c44fb22e2d9dc06732d1a4517abb57e2b8f734ce4ef2010",
"meta": {
"indexable": false
}
}
}'::jsonb))
select * from entry where fields->jsonb_object_keys(fields) #> '{"meta": {"indexable": "true"}}'::jsonb;
How can I query on the value of nested object? Can I somehow join the result of json_object_keys with the table iself?

demo:db<>fiddle
First way: using jsonb_each()
SELECT
jsonb_build_object(elem.key, elem.value) -- 3
FROM
entry,
jsonb_each(fields) as elem -- 1
WHERE
elem.value #> '{"meta": {"indexable": true}}' -- 2
Expand all subobjects into one row per "field". This creates 2 columns: the key and the value (in your case login and {"meta": {"indexable": true}, "value": "fred"})
Filter the records by checking the value column for containing the meta object using the #> as you already mentioned
Recreate the JSON object (combining the key/value columns)
Second way: Using jsonb_object_keys()
SELECT
jsonb_build_object(keys, fields -> keys) -- 3
FROM
entry,
jsonb_object_keys(fields) as keys -- 1
WHERE
fields -> keys #> '{"meta": {"indexable": true}}' -- 2
Finding all keys as you did
and 3. are very similar to the first way

Related

Check if row contains a nested item in DynamoDB?

I am trying to use PartiQL with DynamoDB to perform SQL queries to check if a device is inactive and contains an error. Here's is the query I am using:
SELECT *
FROM "table"
WHERE "device"."active" = 0 AND "device"."error" IS NOT NULL
However I've noticed that even if a device doesn't have the error item, the query still returns a row. How can I query a device that only contains the error item?
With error item
{
"id": "value",
"name": "value,
"device": {
"active": 0,
"error": {
"reason": "value"
}
}
}
Without error item
{
"id": "value",
"name": "value,
"device": {
"active": 0
}
}
You're looking for IS NOT MISSING :) That's the partiql version of the filter expression operator function attribute_exists.
Given a table with a primary key PK, sort key SK, and the following data:
PK
SK
myMap
foo
1
{}
foo
2
{"test": {}}
-- Returns both foo 1 and foo 2
SELECT *
FROM "my-table"
WHERE "PK" = 'foo' AND "myMap"."test" IS NOT NULL
-- Returns just foo 2
SELECT *
FROM "my-table"
WHERE "PK" = 'foo' AND "myMap"."test" IS NOT MISSING
Also made sure my example specifies the PK in the WHERE clause - otherwise, your query will be a full scan. Maybe that's what you want, though. Just something to be aware of.

jsonb find a value in an array

There is such a data structure:
Column "recipient" type jsonb
{
"phoneNumbers": [
{
"isDefault": true,
"type": "MOBILE",
"number": "3454654645"
},
{
"isDefault": true,
"type": "MOBILE",
"number": "12423543645"
}
]
}
I need to write a search request by number. In the postgres documentation, I did not find a search by value in an array, only it is obtained by an index. It doesn't suit me
I made a query like this, it gets executed, but are there any other ways to search through an array?
SELECT *
FROM my_table
WHERE recipient -> 'phoneNumbers' #> '[{"number":3454654645}]'
That's pretty much the best way, yes.
If you have a (GIST) index on recipient the index would not be used by your condition. But the following could make use of such an index:
SELECT *
FROM my_table
WHERE recipient #> '["phoneNumbers": {"number":3454654645}]}'
If you are using Postgres 12 or later, you can also use a JSON path expression:
SELECT *
FROM my_table
WHERE recipient ## '$.phoneNumbers[*].number == "12423543645"'
If you can't pass a JSON object to your query, you can use an EXISTS sub-select:
SELECT mt.*
FROM my_table mt
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM jsonb_array_elements_text(mt.recipient -> 'phoneNumbers') as x(element)
WHERE x.element ->> 'number' = '3454654645')
The '3454654645' can be passed as a parameter to your query. This will never make use of an index though.

Querying an array of objects in JSONB

I have a table with a column of the data type JSONB. Each row in the column has a JSON that looks something like this:
[
{
"A":{
"AA": "something",
"AB": false
}
},
{
"B": {
"BA":[
{
"BAAA": [1,2,3,4]
},
{
"BABA": {
....
}
}
]
}
}
]
Note: the JSON is a complete mess of lists and objects, and it has a total of 300 lines. Not my data but I am stuck with it. :(
I am using postgresql version 12
How would I write the following queries:
Return all row that has the value of AB set to false.
Return the values of BAAA is each row.
You can find the AB = false rows with a JSON Path query:
select *
from test
where data ## '$[*].A.AB == false'
If you don't know where exactly the key AB is located, you can use:
select *
from test
where data ## '$[*].**.AB == false'
To display all elements from the array as rows, you can use:
select id, e.*
from test
cross join jsonb_array_elements(jsonb_path_query_first(data, '$[*].B.BA.BAAA')) with ordinality as e(item, idx)
I include a column "id" as a placeholder for the primary key column, so that the source of the array element can be determined in the output.
Online example

BigQuery: Get field names of a STRUCT

I have some data in a STRUCT in BigQuery. Below I have visualised an example of the data as JSON:
{
...
siblings: {
david: { a: 1 }
sarah: { b: 1, c: 1 }
}
...
}
I want to produce a field from a query that resembles ["david", "sarah"]. Essentially I just want to get the keys from the STRUCT (object). Note that every user will have different key names in the siblings STRUCT.
Is this possible in BigQuery?
Thanks,
A
Your structs schema must be consistent throughout the table. They can't change keys because they're part of the table schema. To get the keys you simply take a look at the table schema.
If values change, they're probably values in an array - I guess you might have something like this:
WITH t AS (
SELECT 1 AS id, [STRUCT('david' AS name, 33 as age), ('sarah', 42)] AS siblings
union all
SELECT 2, [('ken', 19), ('ryu',21), ('chun li',23)]
)
SELECT * FROM t
If you tried to introduce new keys in the second row or within the array, you'd get an error Array elements of types {...} do not have a common supertype at ....
The first element of the above example in json representation looks like this:
{
"id": "1",
"siblings": [
{
"name": "david",
"age": "33"
},
{
"name": "sarah",
"age": "42"
}
]
}

jsonb LIKE query on nested objects in an array

My JSON data looks like this:
[{
"id": 1,
"payload": {
"location": "NY",
"details": [{
"name": "cafe",
"cuisine": "mexican"
},
{
"name": "foody",
"cuisine": "italian"
}
]
}
}, {
"id": 2,
"payload": {
"location": "NY",
"details": [{
"name": "mbar",
"cuisine": "mexican"
},
{
"name": "fdy",
"cuisine": "italian"
}
]
}
}]
given a text "foo" I want to return all the tuples that have this substring. But I cannot figure out how to write the query for the same.
I followed this related answer but cannot figure out how to do LIKE.
This is what I have working right now:
SELECT r.res->>'name' AS feature_name, d.details::text
FROM restaurants r
, LATERAL (SELECT ARRAY (
SELECT * FROM json_populate_recordset(null::foo, r.res#>'{payload,
details}')
)
) AS d(details)
WHERE d.details #> '{cafe}';
Instead of passing the whole text of cafe I want to pass ca and get the results that match that text.
Your solution can be simplified some more:
SELECT r.res->>'name' AS feature_name, d.name AS detail_name
FROM restaurants r
, jsonb_populate_recordset(null::foo, r.res #> '{payload, details}') d
WHERE d.name LIKE '%oh%';
Or simpler, yet, with jsonb_array_elements() since you don't actually need the row type (foo) at all in this example:
SELECT r.res->>'name' AS feature_name, d->>'name' AS detail_name
FROM restaurants r
, jsonb_array_elements(r.res #> '{payload, details}') d
WHERE d->>'name' LIKE '%oh%';
db<>fiddle here
But that's not what you asked exactly:
I want to return all the tuples that have this substring.
You are returning all JSON array elements (0-n per base table row), where one particular key ('{payload,details,*,name}') matches (case-sensitively).
And your original question had a nested JSON array on top of this. You removed the outer array for this solution - I did the same.
Depending on your actual requirements the new text search capability of Postgres 10 might be useful.
I ended up doing this(inspired by this answer - jsonb query with nested objects in an array)
SELECT r.res->>'name' AS feature_name, d.details::text
FROM restaurants r
, LATERAL (
SELECT * FROM json_populate_recordset(null::foo, r.res#>'{payload, details}')
) AS d(details)
WHERE d.details LIKE '%oh%';
Fiddle here - http://sqlfiddle.com/#!15/f2027/5