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We are developing a JSON payload to be passed via a web service to an IOS application. It is simple enough to use the FOR JSON AUTO clause and I have obtained a variety of JSON selects. But our iPad developers have asked for a combined payload that would concatenate several selects into a single long varchar.

How to accomplish that escapes me.

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Thanks for the ideas, looks like I will just "string" the data together. (Glad JSON is rather simple in that regard.)

The basic SELECT... FOR JSON is so easy, I was hoping for one more silver bullet: - SELECT * FROM A FOR JSON INTO ls_jsona; - SELECT * FROM B FOR JSON INTO ls_jsonb; - SELECT ls_jsona || ls_jsonb; OR: - SELECT * FROM A FOR JSON UNION ALL SELECT * FROM B FOR JSON;

Guess I'll have to actually do some work :-).

Thanks, Bill

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If you have create for example two JSON Strings in two variables.

set json1 = '{"Name": "Bob"};
set json1 = '{"Name": "Mary"};

You can combine these two JSON Objects in an array.

select string('[', json1, ',', json2, ']';

So instead of having different web service calls for different select statements you concatenate them in one variable and return the combine result as payload.

HTH

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answered 15 Sep '16, 02:22

Thomas Dueme...
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Likewise you could create a JSON object instead of an array:

select string('{ "obj1" : ', json1, ', "obj2" : ', json2, '}';

(15 Sep '16, 03:47) Volker Barth

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