Bug #79049 JSON: path arguments do not allow square brace notation for property names
Submitted: 31 Oct 2015 23:54 Modified: 1 Nov 2015 11:34
Reporter: Roland Bouman Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: JSON Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.7.9 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[31 Oct 2015 23:54] Roland Bouman
Description:
The JSON functions that take a path argument, like JSON_EXTRACT, do not accept square brace notation for properties.

Suppose we have an object: 

{
  "bla": 1
}

then the path

$.["bla"] 

should be equivalent to the path:

$.bla (or $."bla")

At least, this is what works in any javascript engine I know.

How to repeat:
mysql> SELECT JSON_EXTRACT(JSON_OBJECT('bla', 1), '$.["bla"]');
ERROR 3143 (42000): Invalid JSON path expression. The error is around character position 2 in '$.["bla"]'.

Suggested fix:
Please support square brace property access operator in path argument to JSON functions.
[1 Nov 2015 11:34] MySQL Verification Team
Hello Roland,

Thank you for the report.

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mysql> SELECT JSON_EXTRACT(JSON_OBJECT('bla', 1), '$.["bla"]');
ERROR 3143 (42000): Invalid JSON path expression. The error is around character position 2 in '$.["bla"]'.
mysql>
mysql> SELECT JSON_EXTRACT(JSON_OBJECT('bla', 1), '$."bla"');
+------------------------------------------------+
| JSON_EXTRACT(JSON_OBJECT('bla', 1), '$."bla"') |
+------------------------------------------------+
| 1                                              |
+------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT JSON_EXTRACT(JSON_OBJECT('bla', 1), '$.bla');
+----------------------------------------------+
| JSON_EXTRACT(JSON_OBJECT('bla', 1), '$.bla') |
+----------------------------------------------+
| 1                                            |
+----------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Thanks,
Umesh
[5 Nov 2015 9:01] Knut Anders Hatlen
Changing the report from bug to feature request, since it's a request to add alternative syntax for existing functionality.