Thank you very much for your reply, Merlin :)
On Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:00:38 AM UTC-8, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Mick wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > my field is called Samples and the value is {"R":100, "S":101, "Q":102}. how do I find all Samples for which "R" =
100?
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> > Thank you in advance.
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> for xml type we have xpath function for these type of queries.
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> unfortunately, no analog for json type exists as of yet. so, here our
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> our options:
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> *) pull to client side and filter there
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> *) search textually (say, by regular expression) and hope for the best
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> *) implement backend function in a language that speaks json, or can
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> be extended to do so. pl/v8 and p/python are both noteworthy, but
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> almost all languages have json features of some kind. your function
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> will do simple test and return bool for example.
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> merlin
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