work with json in oracle

Question

Is there an easy way to work with JSON within oracle? I have a standard procedure that I use to call web services quite often, JSON is a format that I am familiar with in w

Answer 1

Life is happy try this:

CLOB or 20000000 characters JSON

with data as
  ( select 
    xmlelement(e,regexp_replace('{"name":"'||colname||'"}', '[[:cntrl:]]', ''),',') col1
    from tblname
  )
  select
        rtrim(replace(replace(replace(xmlagg(col1).getclobval(),'&'||'quot;','"'),'',''),'',''),',')
        as very_long_json
  from data;