bigframes.bigquery.json_value

bigframes.bigquery.json_value(input: Series, json_path: str = '$') → Series

Extracts a JSON scalar value and converts it to a SQL STRING value. In addtion, this function: - Removes the outermost quotes and unescapes the values. - Returns a SQL NULL if a non-scalar value is selected. - Uses double quotes to escape invalid JSON_PATH characters in JSON keys.

Examples:

>>> import bigframes.pandas as bpd
>>> import bigframes.bigquery as bbq

>>> s = bpd.Series(['{"name": "Jakob", "age": "6"}', '{"name": "Jakob", "age": []}'])
>>> bbq.json_value(s, json_path="$.age")
0    6
1  <NA>
dtype: string

Parameters:

• input (bigframes.series.Series) – The Series containing JSON data (as native JSON objects or JSON-formatted strings).

• json_path (str) – The JSON path identifying the data that you want to obtain from the input.

Returns:

A new Series with the JSON-formatted STRING.

Return type:

bigframes.series.Series