[MDEV-27412] JSON_TABLE doesn't properly unquote strings - Jira

I have trouble with the `JSON_TABLE` function in *MariaDB 10.6.5*. This is my query:

SET @data = '[{"Data": "<root language=\\"de\\"></root>"}]';

SELECT

  data

FROM JSON_TABLE (@data, '$[*]' COLUMNS (data text PATH '$.Data')) AS t;}}

What I get back is the XML string, but not properly unescaped:

<root language=\"de\"></root>

When I use then `JSON_VALUE` instead:

SET @data = '[{"Data": "<root language=\\"de\\"></root>"}]';

SELECT

  JSON_VALUE(@DATA, '$[0].Data');

then I get back the correctly unescaped string:

<root language="de"></root>

When I do the same on a MySQL *8.0.26* server, it works as expected:

SET @data = '[{"Data": "<root language=\\"de\\"></root>"}]';

SELECT

  data

FROM JSON_TABLE (@data, '$[*]' COLUMNS (data text PATH '$.Data')) AS t;

-- correct:

-- <root language="de"></root>

SELECT

  JSON_VALUE(@data, '$[0].Data');

-- correct:

-- <root language="de"></root>

It looks to me that this difference in behaviour is a bug in MariaDB's side.

relates to

MDEV-27346 JSON_TABLE() does not handle quoting of strings correctly

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