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JSON_PARSE function

The JSON_PARSE function parses data in JSON format and converts it into the SUPER representation.

To ingest into SUPER data type using the INSERT or UPDATE command, use the JSON_PARSE function. When you use JSON_PARSE() to parse JSON strings into SUPER values, certain restrictions apply. For additional information, see Parsing options for SUPER.

Syntax

JSON_PARSE( {json_string | binary_value} )

Arguments

Return type

SUPER

Examples

To convert the JSON array [10001,10002,"abc"] into the SUPER data type, use the following example.

SELECT JSON_PARSE('[10001,10002,"abc"]');

+---------------------+
|     json_parse      |
+---------------------+
| [10001,10002,"abc"] |
+---------------------+

To make sure that the function converted the JSON array into the SUPER data type, use the following example. For more information, see JSON_TYPEOF function

SELECT JSON_TYPEOF(JSON_PARSE('[10001,10002,"abc"]'));

+-------------+
| json_typeof |
+-------------+
| array       |
+-------------+