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Shengnan YU edited comment on FLINK-23933 at 9/28/21, 7:38 AM:
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I also advise that an option to extract the raw message into a column is
necessary. Because sometimes we need only some columns of the json as well as
the whole raw message.
FLINK-24391
was (Author: ysn2233):
I also advise that an option to extract the raw message into a column is
necessary. Because sometimes we need only some columns of the json as well as
the whole raw message.
[FLINK-24391] flink-json formats should support an option to extract the raw
message into a column - ASF JIRA (apache.org)
> flink-json formats support a option to parse nested json as a String
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>
> Key: FLINK-23933
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-23933
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Formats (JSON, Avro, Parquet, ORC, SequenceFile)
> Affects Versions: 1.13.2
> Reporter: Shengnan YU
> Priority: Major
>
> When use Flink SQL to read message with nested json, eg. \{"a":{"b":111,
> "c":"xxx"}, "d":12345}，The nested field must be specified ROW or MAP in the
> table schema.
> {code:sql}
> CREATE TABLE input(
> a ROW(`b`: BIGINT, `c` VARCHAR),
> d BIGINT
> )
> WITH (
> 'format' = 'json',
> // ...
> );
> {code}
> I'd like to create a option to allow we read the json-object type value as a
> String.
> {code:sql}
> CREATE TABLE input (
> a VARCHAR,
> d VARCHAR
> )
> WITH (
> 'format' = 'json',
> 'json.forceStringFields' = 'a,d'
> // ...
> );
> {code}
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