Authors

Forward Xu, Jark Wu

Status

Current state: "Under Discussion"

Discussion thread: http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Support-JSON-functions-in-Flink-SQL-td32674.html

JIRA: here (<- link to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-XXXX)

Released: <Flink Version>

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Motivation

Currently, Flink SQL does not support the SQL 2016 JSON function. and many of the message middleware data are in JSON format. For example: Kafka, Flink SQL can support JSON operation to more easily parse the data in Kafka. In addition, the data in some relational databases is also stored and ingested in JSON format.

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