Re: new json funcs

On 01/27/2014 03:53 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan escribió:
>
>> Note that we can only do this when the result type stays the same.
>> It does not for json_each/json_each_text or
>> json_extract_path/json_extract_path_text, which is why we have
>> different functions for those cases.
> In C code, if I extract a value using json_object_field or
> json_array_element, is there a way to turn it into the dequoted version,
> that is, the value that I would have gotten had I called
> json_object_field_text or json_array_element_text instead?
>
> I wrote a quick and dirty hack in the event triggers patch that just
> removes the outermost "" and turns any \" into ", but that's probably
> incomplete.  Does jsonfuncs.c offer any way to do this?  That might be
> useful for the crowd that cares about the detail being discussed in this
> subthread.
>


I'm not sure I understand the need. This is the difference between the
_text variants and their parents. Why would you call json_object_field
when you want the dequoted text?

cheers

andrew