El método "eazy" es usar CONCAT para generar JSON.
Y use GROUP_CONCAT para combinar los registros de varios equipos en una matriz JSON.
Este método también funciona en las versiones anteriores de MySQL que no admiten la creación de funciones JSON.
Consulta
SET SESSION group_concat_max_len = @@max_allowed_packet
SELECT
CONCAT(
"{"
, '"id"' , ":" , '"' , friends.id , '"' , ","
, '"name"' , ":" , '"' , friends.name , '"' , ","
, '"team"' , ":" , "["
, GROUP_CONCAT('"', teams.name, '"')
, "]"
, "}"
) AS json
FROM
friends
INNER JOIN
relations
ON
friends.id = relations.friends_id
INNER JOIN
teams
ON
relations.teams_id = teams.id
WHERE
friends.id = 1
Resultado
| json |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| {"id":"1","name":"David Belton","team":["Cleveland Cavaliers"]} |
demostración
http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!9/4cd244/19
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Consulta
SET SESSION group_concat_max_len = @@max_allowed_packet
SELECT
CONCAT(
"["
, GROUP_CONCAT(json_records.json) # combine json records into a string
, "]"
) AS json
FROM (
SELECT
CONCAT(
"{"
, '"id"' , ":" , '"' , friends.id , '"' , ","
, '"name"' , ":" , '"' , friends.name , '"' , ","
, '"team"' , ":" , "["
, GROUP_CONCAT('"', teams.name, '"')
, "]"
, "}"
) AS json
FROM
friends
INNER JOIN
relations
ON
friends.id = relations.friends_id
INNER JOIN
teams
ON
relations.teams_id = teams.id
WHERE
friends.id IN(SELECT id FROM friends) #select the friends you need or just simply friends.id IN(1, 2)
GROUP BY
friends.id
)
AS json_records
Resultado
| json |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [{"id":"1","name":"David Belton","team":["Cleveland Cavaliers"]},{"id":"2","name":"Alex James","team":["Boston Celtics","Cleveland Cavaliers"]}] |
demostración
http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!9/4cd244/61