How to cast value as JSON in MariaDB?

Question

I want to extract a JSON with table name and columns inside each table.

Here is my SQL:

SELECT
    JSON_OBJECTAGG(table_name, columns)
FROM (
    SELECT
        table_name,
        JSON_OBJECTAGG(column_name, data_type) as columns
    FROM `COLUMNS`
    WHERE
        `TABLE_SCHEMA` = 'my_db'
    GROUP BY table_name
) table_columns

The problem is in JSON_OBJECTAGG(table_name, columns) , columns became string. How to cast it as JSON?

Answer 1

Use JSON_EXTRACT(column_value_in_json, '$')

SELECT
    JSON_OBJECTAGG(table_name,
        JSON_EXTRACT(
           columns,
           '$'
        )
    )
FROM (
    SELECT
        table_name,
        JSON_OBJECTAGG(column_name, data_type) as columns
    FROM `COLUMNS`
    WHERE
            `TABLE_SCHEMA` = 'my_db'
    GROUP BY table_name
) table_columns