How can CosmosDB Query the values of the properties within a dynamic JSON?
The app allows storing a JSON as a set of custom properties for an object. They are serialized and stored in CosmosDb. For example, here are two entries:
{
"id": "ade9f2d6-fff6-4993-8473-a2af40f071f4",
...
"Properties": {
"fn": "Ernest",
"ln": "Hemingway",
"a_book": "The Old Man and the Sea"
},
...
}
and
{
"id": "23cb9d4c-da56-40ec-9fbe-7f5178a92a4f",
...
"Properties": {
"First Name": "Salvador",
"Last Name": "Dali",
"Period": "Surrealism"
},
...
}
How can the query be structured so that it searches in the values of Properties
?
I’m looking for something that doesn’t involve the name of the
sub-propety, like SELECT * FROM c WHERE
some_function_here(c.Properties, ‘Ernest’)
Maybe I get your idea that you want to filter the documents by the value of the Properties
, not the name. If so , you could use UDF in cosmos db.
sample udf:
function query(Properties,filedValue){
for(var k in Properties){
if(Properties[k] == filedValue)
return true;
}
return false;
}
sample query:
SELECT c.id FROM c where udf.query(c.Properties,'Ernest')
output:
Hope it helps you.
Just summary here, Ovi's udf function like:
function QueryProperties (Properties, filedValue) {
for (var k in Properties) {
if (Properties[k] && Properties[k].toString().toUpperCase().includes(filedValue.toString().toUpperCase()))
return true;
return false;
}
Both of the following syntax's will work.
SELECT * FROM c where c.Properties["First Name"] = 'Salvador'
SELECT * FROM c where c.Properties.fn = 'Ernest'