Config Order Maintained

[mexi-cano]

What (if anything) did you refactor?

• Updated config model and serialization to maintain object order. Updated init config data to correct order.

[CalebPena]

I think that you need to run python manage.py makemigrations and than migrate.

[mexi-cano]

Using an OrderedDict to return the data field as an OrderedDict instance did not work for me. I tried returning the ordered data as such but the approach did not work.

def ordered_data(self):
        return json.loads(json.dumps(self.data), object_pairs_hook=OrderedDict)

Instead I created a custom OrderedJSONField that inherits from JSONField and overrides the serialization and deserialization methods to handle ordered dictionaries. To achieve this, I made changes to the model, serializer, and created a custom field class:

Custom OrderedJSONField (fields.py):

I created a custom OrderedJSONField class that inherits from Django's JSONField.
In the from_db_value and to_python methods, I use json.loads with a custom object_pairs_hook that converts the deserialized JSON object into an OrderedDict. This ensures that the order of the keys is preserved when retrieving data from the database.
The get_prep_value method is used to serialize the JSON data before saving it to the database.

Model (models.py):

In the model definition, I replaced the default JSONField with our custom OrderedJSONField for the data field.
This ensures that the JSON data stored in the data field will maintain the order of the keys.

Serializer (serializers.py):

In the serializer, I specified the data field as an instance of OrderedJSONField.
This ensures that the serializer uses the custom field for serialization and deserialization of the JSON data.

@CalebPena

[CalebPena]

Looks good, but you forgot to run python manage.py makemigrations.

[CalebPena]

@mexi-cano Could you fix the merge conflicts?