Syntax

JSON_ARRAY_UNPACK(vector_expression)

Arguments

• vector_expression: An expression that evaluates to a vector. The vector must be encoded as a blob containing packed single-precision or double-precision floating-point numbers in little-endian byte order.

Return Type

A JSON array of zero or more floating point numbers.

Remarks

A vector can be of any length, but blob lengths must be divisible by 4 bytes (or 8 bytes, depending on the data type specified).

You can specify the data type of the vector elements in which this operation is performed on the vector by adding a suffix to the function. Omitting the suffix from the function is equivalent to suffixing it with _F32. All operations are done using the specified data type. The following table lists the suffixes and their data type.

Examples

The following examples use the ju_t table.

CREATE TABLE ju_t (x BLOB, y BLOB);

INSERT INTO ju_t VALUES (JSON_ARRAY_PACK('[12.1, 6.4]'), JSON_ARRAY_PACK('[8.6,9.2]'));
INSERT INTO ju_t VALUES (JSON_ARRAY_PACK('[5.2, 11.7]'), JSON_ARRAY_PACK('[4.6,7.3]'));

SELECT JSON_ARRAY_UNPACK(x) "x", JSON_ARRAY_UNPACK(y) "y" from ju_t;

+-------------------------+-------------------------+
| x                       | y                       |
+-------------------------+-------------------------+
| [12.1000004,6.4000001]  | [8.60000038,9.19999981] |
| [5.19999981,11.6999998] | [4.5999999,7.30000019]  |
+-------------------------+-------------------------+

SELECT JSON_ARRAY_UNPACK_I32(x) "x", JSON_ARRAY_UNPACK_I32(y) "y" from ju_t;

+-------------------------+-------------------------+
| x                       | y                       |
+-------------------------+-------------------------+
| [1094818202,1087163597] | [1091148186,1091777331] |
| [1084647014,1094398771] | [1083388723,1089051034] |
+-------------------------+-------------------------+

Related Topics

• JSON_ARRAY_PACK