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[MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think I want a function that converts the blob into a JSON formatted
set of key-value pairs.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:19 PM, MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Michael Widenius <monty@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> MARK> How do you fetch all name-value pairs from a dynamic column in a
>> MARK> format that can be consumed by a client?
>>
>> Do you mean from SQL or in the client library?
>
> In the client
>
>>
>> MARK> The client can select the
>> MARK> column as is but then must know how mariadb encoded it.
>>
>> Sorry, don't understand the question.
>>
>> When asking for a value for a column in the client , you get back a
>> structure that tells how the data is encoded. See the 'struct
>> st_dynamic_column_value'
>>
>> MARK> The function
>> MARK> column_list returns the column names.
>
> Dynamic columns are dynamic. The client doesn't know which key names
> are used for each row selected. With the current code there is no way
> for the client to get all key:value pairs set in a dynamic column for
> some number of rows. They can select the column but probably won't
> know how to decode the name:value pairs stored in it.
>
> Apparently Jakob has code for this. So I don't have much more to add
> for this thread.
>
> --
> Mark Callaghan
> mdcallag@xxxxxxxxx



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