How to get values from MySQL(5.6) column if that contains json document as string

Question

How to get values from MySQL(5.6) column if that contains JSON document as a string

For example, if we have a table - employee in that we have three columns id, nam

Answer 1

In MySQL 5.6, by default JSON_EXTRACT is not available by default.
If you still need to access json data in MySQL 5.6, you need to write custom function.

DELIMITER $$

DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS `json_extract_c`$$

CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`%` FUNCTION `json_extract_c`(
  details TEXT,
  required_field VARCHAR (255)
) RETURNS TEXT CHARSET latin1
BEGIN
  RETURN TRIM(
    BOTH '"' FROM SUBSTRING_INDEX(
      SUBSTRING_INDEX(
        SUBSTRING_INDEX(
          details,
          CONCAT(
            '"',
            SUBSTRING_INDEX(required_field,'$.', - 1),
            '"'
          ),
          - 1
        ),
        '",',
        1
      ),
      ':',
      - 1
    )
  ) ;
END$$

DELIMITER ;

This will help. I have created it and tested.