Using MySQL JSON field to join on a table

Question

I have a json field that stores a list of ids (not best practice here I know), I want to know if it\'s possible to use do operations on this JSON field and use them in the s

Answer 1

With the help of Feras's comment and some fiddling:

  SELECT 
       u.user_id, 
       u.user_name, 
       g.user_group_id,
       g.group_name
   FROM user u
   LEFT JOIN user_group g on JSON_CONTAINS(u.user_groups, CAST(g.user_group_id as JSON), '$')

This appears to work, let me know if there's a better way.