Use django’s JSONField

[chris34]

Inyoka has a custom JSONField Basically, this will work.

However, Django offers nowadays an own JSONField:

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.JSONField
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/forms/fields/#django.forms.JSONField
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/topics/db/queries/#querying-jsonfield

Migrating to Django's one could save maintenance (in the longterm) and make queries easier. However, it is unclear, how much work it is to migrate.

[encbladexp]

Does our own JSONField use the DB native column types, or just TEXT with a JSON in it?

[chris34]

hm, seems like the line number where the class is located changed

inyoka/inyoka/utils/database.py

Line 153 in 7de28b0

class JSONField(models.TextField):

At the moment it's only a Textfield with Python's json.loads(s) and json.dumps(obj, cls=DjangoJSONEncoder).