1# dialects/mssql/json.py
2# Copyright (C) 2005-2025 the SQLAlchemy authors and contributors
3# <see AUTHORS file>
4#
5# This module is part of SQLAlchemy and is released under
6# the MIT License: https://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
7# mypy: ignore-errors
8
9from ... import types as sqltypes
10
11# technically, all the dialect-specific datatypes that don't have any special
12# behaviors would be private with names like _MSJson. However, we haven't been
13# doing this for mysql.JSON or sqlite.JSON which both have JSON / JSONIndexType
14# / JSONPathType in their json.py files, so keep consistent with that
15# sub-convention for now. A future change can update them all to be
16# package-private at once.
17
18
19class JSON(sqltypes.JSON):
20 """MSSQL JSON type.
21
22 MSSQL supports JSON-formatted data as of SQL Server 2016.
23
24 The :class:`_mssql.JSON` datatype at the DDL level will represent the
25 datatype as ``NVARCHAR(max)``, but provides for JSON-level comparison
26 functions as well as Python coercion behavior.
27
28 :class:`_mssql.JSON` is used automatically whenever the base
29 :class:`_types.JSON` datatype is used against a SQL Server backend.
30
31 .. seealso::
32
33 :class:`_types.JSON` - main documentation for the generic
34 cross-platform JSON datatype.
35
36 The :class:`_mssql.JSON` type supports persistence of JSON values
37 as well as the core index operations provided by :class:`_types.JSON`
38 datatype, by adapting the operations to render the ``JSON_VALUE``
39 or ``JSON_QUERY`` functions at the database level.
40
41 The SQL Server :class:`_mssql.JSON` type necessarily makes use of the
42 ``JSON_QUERY`` and ``JSON_VALUE`` functions when querying for elements
43 of a JSON object. These two functions have a major restriction in that
44 they are **mutually exclusive** based on the type of object to be returned.
45 The ``JSON_QUERY`` function **only** returns a JSON dictionary or list,
46 but not an individual string, numeric, or boolean element; the
47 ``JSON_VALUE`` function **only** returns an individual string, numeric,
48 or boolean element. **both functions either return NULL or raise
49 an error if they are not used against the correct expected value**.
50
51 To handle this awkward requirement, indexed access rules are as follows:
52
53 1. When extracting a sub element from a JSON that is itself a JSON
54 dictionary or list, the :meth:`_types.JSON.Comparator.as_json` accessor
55 should be used::
56
57 stmt = select(data_table.c.data["some key"].as_json()).where(
58 data_table.c.data["some key"].as_json() == {"sub": "structure"}
59 )
60
61 2. When extracting a sub element from a JSON that is a plain boolean,
62 string, integer, or float, use the appropriate method among
63 :meth:`_types.JSON.Comparator.as_boolean`,
64 :meth:`_types.JSON.Comparator.as_string`,
65 :meth:`_types.JSON.Comparator.as_integer`,
66 :meth:`_types.JSON.Comparator.as_float`::
67
68 stmt = select(data_table.c.data["some key"].as_string()).where(
69 data_table.c.data["some key"].as_string() == "some string"
70 )
71
72 .. versionadded:: 1.4
73
74
75 """
76
77 # note there was a result processor here that was looking for "number",
78 # but none of the tests seem to exercise it.
79
80
81# Note: these objects currently match exactly those of MySQL, however since
82# these are not generalizable to all JSON implementations, remain separately
83# implemented for each dialect.
84class _FormatTypeMixin:
85 def _format_value(self, value):
86 raise NotImplementedError()
87
88 def bind_processor(self, dialect):
89 super_proc = self.string_bind_processor(dialect)
90
91 def process(value):
92 value = self._format_value(value)
93 if super_proc:
94 value = super_proc(value)
95 return value
96
97 return process
98
99 def literal_processor(self, dialect):
100 super_proc = self.string_literal_processor(dialect)
101
102 def process(value):
103 value = self._format_value(value)
104 if super_proc:
105 value = super_proc(value)
106 return value
107
108 return process
109
110
111class JSONIndexType(_FormatTypeMixin, sqltypes.JSON.JSONIndexType):
112 def _format_value(self, value):
113 if isinstance(value, int):
114 value = "$[%s]" % value
115 else:
116 value = '$."%s"' % value
117 return value
118
119
120class JSONPathType(_FormatTypeMixin, sqltypes.JSON.JSONPathType):
121 def _format_value(self, value):
122 return "$%s" % (
123 "".join(
124 [
125 "[%s]" % elem if isinstance(elem, int) else '."%s"' % elem
126 for elem in value
127 ]
128 )
129 )