In my table, there is a column of JSON
type which contains an array of objects describing time offsets:
[
{
"type": "start"
"time": 1.234
},
{
"type": "end"
"time": 50.403
}
]
I know that I can extract these with JSON_EACH()
and JSON_EXTRACT()
:
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE Items(
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
timings JSON
);
INSERT INTO Items(timings) VALUES
('[{"type": "start", "time": 12.345}, {"type": "end", "time": 67.891}]'),
('[{"type": "start", "time": 24.56}, {"type": "end", "time": 78.901}]');
SELECT
JSON_EXTRACT(Timings.value, '$.type'),
JSON_EXTRACT(Timings.value, '$.time')
FROM
Items,
JSON_EACH(timings) AS Timings;
This returns a table like:
start 12.345
end 67.891
start 24.56
end 78.901
What I really need though is to:
In other words, I'm looking for a table that looks like this:
id start end
-----------------------------
0 12.345 67.891
1 24.56 78.901
I'm hoping for some sort of query like this:
SELECT
id,
JSON_EXTRACT(timings, '$.[type="start"].time'),
JSON_EXTRACT(timings, '$.[type="end"].time')
FROM Items;
Is there some way to use path in the JSON functions to select what I need? Or, some other way to pivot what I have in the first example to apply to the table?
One possibility:
WITH cte(id, json) AS
(SELECT Items.id
, json_group_object(json_extract(j.value, '$.type'), json_extract(j.value, '$.time'))
FROM Items
JOIN json_each(timings) AS j ON json_extract(j.value, '$.type') IN ('start', 'end')
GROUP BY Items.id)
SELECT id
, json_extract(json, '$.start') AS start
, json_extract(json, '$.end') AS "end"
FROM cte
ORDER BY id;
which gives
id start end
---------- ---------- ----------
1 12.345 67.891
2 24.56 78.901
Another one, that uses the window functions added in sqlite 3.25 and avoids creating intermediate JSON objects:
SELECT DISTINCT Items.id
, max(json_extract(j.value, '$.time'))
FILTER (WHERE json_extract(j.value, '$.type') = 'start') OVER ids AS start
, max(json_extract(j.value, '$.time'))
FILTER (WHERE json_extract(j.value, '$.type') = 'end') OVER ids AS "end"
FROM Items
JOIN json_each(timings) AS j ON json_extract(j.value, '$.type') IN ('start', 'end')
WINDOW ids AS (PARTITION BY Items.id)
ORDER BY Items.id;
The key is using the ON
clause of the JOIN
to limit results to just the two objects in each array that you care about, and then merging those up to two rows for each Items.id
into one with a couple of different approaches.