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Apache NiFi : QueryRecord JSON Select child field

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Contributor

Is it possible to select with the QueryRecord processor also child fields of an given JSON structrue?

 

E.g. following JSON: 

{
  "name" : "Max",
  "id" : 1,
  "location" : {
    "city" : "Frankfurt"
  }
}

 

And I would do the following query: 

SELECT name, location.city FROM FLOWFILE

 

But this throws an error: 

QueryRecord[id=a4744340-017a-1000-6944-73fe4d362d90] Unable to query StandardFlowFileRecord[uuid=706e8ae8-f76c-4ebb-9c65-c46cb7026c89,claim=StandardContentClaim [resourceClaim=StandardResourceClaim[id=1626251405764-2, container=default, section=2], offset=790026, length=67],offset=0,name=55b72cfd-5308-4e83-9304-166193e76478,size=67] due to java.sql.SQLException: Error while preparing statement [SELECT "name", "location.city" FROM FLOWFILE]: org.apache.nifi.processor.exception.ProcessException: java.sql.SQLException: Error while preparing statement [SELECT "name", "location.city" FROM FLOWFILE]

 

Is there something that I'm doing wrong? Here is the configuration:

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Hi @janis-ax , 

 

This reply comes a bit late but I was just researching the same issue. According to the official NiFi documentation, this should be possible using the "RPath" function in the 'Where' clause. 

 

Check out the "SQL over hierarchical data" section here: https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.apache.nifi/nifi-standard-nar/latest/org.apach... 

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Super Guru

As @mkohs mentioned, using the RPATH function is the way to go here.

It can be used on the SELECT clause, for projection, as well as on the WHERE cause, for filtering.

 

You can see a similar use of it in this post here: https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/QueryRecord-processor-issue-with-nested-JSON/td-...

 

Cheers,

André

 

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Super Guru

Your sample query has no "quotes" but the one configured does.  Just wanted to make sure you tried without those quotes ?

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Contributor

I tried both ways. For keys on the root level, it doesn't matter if you use quotes. If I want to access child keys I got following error: 

 

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Super Guru

Understood, had to make sure!    Next for good measure, make sure flow works for just name.  This will show you if the issue is the entire setup or with just "location.city".  

 

Next look at the configurations for the Reader/Writer and share those for us to see incase they are not default configs,etc.  I believe the particular error:

SQLException: Error while preparing statement

occurs with a schema conflict or issue with flowfile being different than expected schema. 

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Contributor

For only "name", it's working fine, I get following FlowFile content: 

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I guess the issue is within the ControllerServices. I used JSON-TreeReader but with default configuration: 

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Contributor

Hi @janis-ax , 

 

This reply comes a bit late but I was just researching the same issue. According to the official NiFi documentation, this should be possible using the "RPath" function in the 'Where' clause. 

 

Check out the "SQL over hierarchical data" section here: https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.apache.nifi/nifi-standard-nar/latest/org.apach... 

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Contributor

Thanks this works! I just have to use RPATH_STRING

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Rising Star

Hi @mkohs,

 

I am using QueryRecord processor and using SQL len function in the select statement. However, the processor results with the below error: "No match found for function signature len(CHARACTER)"

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Is this the processor specific error because the same sql statement in running fine in sql server. 
Any help would be appreciated.

 

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Hi,

Nifi QueryRecord uses Apache Calcite SQL. Per the documentation (https://calcite.apache.org/docs/reference.html ) you can use either CHAR_LENGTH or CHARACTER_LENGTH to get the string size. Both functions seem to have the same behavior according to the documentation.

If you find this helpful please accept solution.

Thanks

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Rising Star

This worked. Thanks.