Re: More new SQL/JSON item methods

At Thu, 1 Feb 2024 09:22:22 +0530, Jeevan Chalke <jeevan(dot)chalke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote in
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 7:24 AM Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
> > At Thu, 01 Feb 2024 10:49:57 +0900 (JST), Kyotaro Horiguchi <
> > horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in
> > > By the way, while playing with this feature, I noticed the following
> > > error message:
> > >
> > > > select jsonb_path_query('1.1' , '$.boolean()');
> > > > ERROR: numeric argument of jsonpath item method .boolean() is out of
> > range for type boolean
> > >
> > > The error message seems a bit off to me. For example, "argument '1.1'
> > > is invalid for type [bB]oolean" seems more appropriate for this
> > > specific issue. (I'm not ceratin about our policy on the spelling of
> > > Boolean..)
> >
> > Or, following our general convention, it would be spelled as:
> >
> > 'invalid argument for type Boolean: "1.1"'
> >
>
> jsonpath way:

Hmm. I see.

> ERROR: argument of jsonpath item method .boolean() is invalid for type
> boolean
>
> or, if we add input value, then
>
> ERROR: argument "1.1" of jsonpath item method .boolean() is invalid for
> type boolean
>
> And this should work for all the error types, like out of range, not valid,
> invalid input, etc, etc. Also, we don't need separate error messages for
> string input as well, which currently has the following form:
>
> "string argument of jsonpath item method .%s() is not a valid
> representation.."

Agreed.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center