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Ramin Gharib commented on FLINK-39049:
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[~jkk123] Do you have a PR ready for this? I would like to introduce this for a
better path-based access pattern as you mentioned.
> Introduce built-in functions `VARIANT_GET` and `TRY_VARIANT_GET ` to extract
> values from a variant
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FLINK-39049
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-39049
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Table SQL / API
> Reporter: Jinkun Liu
> Assignee: Jinkun Liu
> Priority: Minor
>
> ||SQL Function||Table Function||Description||
> |{{VARIANT_GET(variant, path[, returnType])}}|{{VARIANT.variantGet(variant,
> path[, returnType])}}|Extracts a sub-value from a {{VARIANT}} using the
> specified path and casts it to the target type.
>
> If the path does not exist or is invalid, this function returns {{{}NULL{}}}.
>
> If the target return type is incompatible with the extracted value, this
> function throws an error.
>
> ```sql
> -- TRUE
> VARIANT_GET(PARSE_JSON('\{"a":true}'), '$.a', 'BOOLEAN')
>
> – NULL (path does not exist)
> VARIANT_GET(PARSE_JSON('\{"a": true}'), '$.b', 'INT')
>
> – Throws an error: cannot cast VARIANT(STRING) to INT
> VARIANT_GET(PARSE_JSON('\{"a":"oops"}'), '$.a', 'INT')
> ```|
> |{{TRY_VARIANT_GET(variant, path[,
> returnType])}}|{{VARIANT.tryVariantGet(variant, path[, returnType])}}|Similar
> to {{{}VARIANT_GET{}}}, but returns {{NULL}} instead of throwing an error
> when the extracted value cannot be cast to the target return type.
>
> If the path does not exist or is invalid, this function also returns
> {{{}NULL{}}}.
>
> ```sql
> -- TRUE
> TRY_VARIANT_GET(PARSE_JSON('\{"a":true}'), '$.a', 'BOOLEAN')
>
> – NULL (path does not exist)
> TRY_VARIANT_GET(PARSE_JSON('\{"a":true}'), '$.b', 'INT')
>
> – NULL (cast fails)
> TRY_VARIANT_GET(PARSE_JSON('\{"a":"oops"}'), '$.a', 'INT')
> ```|
> h3. References
> * [Apache Spark
> |https://downloads.apache.org/spark/docs/4.2.0-preview3/api/sql/variant-functions/#try_variant_get]{{[TRY_VARIANT_GET|https://downloads.apache.org/spark/docs/4.2.0-preview3/api/sql/variant-functions/#try_variant_get]}}
> * [Snowflake
> |https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/functions/get]{{[GET|https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/functions/get]}}
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