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

Below answer works for me. it remove double quotes from the value.

DELIMITER $$

DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS `json_extract_values`$$

CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`localhost` FUNCTION `json_extract_values`(
  details TEXT,
  required_field VARCHAR (255)
) RETURNS TEXT CHARSET latin1
BEGIN
SET details = SUBSTRING_INDEX(details, "{", -1);
SET details = SUBSTRING_INDEX(details, "}", 1);
RETURN 
    SUBSTRING_INDEX(
        TRIM(
            TRAILING '"' FROM 
                SUBSTRING_INDEX(
                    details,
                    CONCAT( 
                           '"', 
                           SUBSTRING_INDEX(required_field,'$.', - 1),
                           '":'
                          ),
                -1 )
            ),
        '"',
     -1);    
END$$

DELIMITER ;