How to create a JSON object in MySql with a boolean value?

Question

I would like my MySql query to return a JSON object that looks as follows:

{\"name\": \"Piotr\", \"likesMysql\": true}

This seems to be wor

Answer 1

This seems to be a bug in MySql.

You can workaround it though with cast(true as json) e.g.:

SELECT json_object(
    'name', 'Piotr',
    'likesMysql', if(4 MOD 2 = 0, cast(TRUE as json), cast(FALSE as json))
)