[Pulp-dev] JSON Field Implementation

[Jeff Ortel]

Given your findings and the simplicity of implementing this, it seems to make sense.  We can always replace it
later if we find something better.

On 08/22/2016 03:08 PM, Patrick Creech wrote:
> While implementing the task models for Pulp 3.0, I came to the conclusion that we still have a
> requirement for implementing a database field strictly for object persistence.  The best solution
> for this will be to utilize a custom field for this, that allows us to serialize it to a json string
> and back.  The question then became implementing our own or utilize something that already exists.
> 
> Afer searching through a link provided by Sean[0] at what's available for JSONField implementations,
>  I have come to the decision that it will probably be more beneficial for us to implement our own.
> 
> Most implementations seem to stem from this blog post[1] which (sadly) isn't available at it's
> original location anymore (wayback machine link)
> 
> After reading the various implementations (which are in various states of completeness/abandon for
> the most part), I came to the conclusion that this is actually something that is simple and common
> to do, and that the various implementations were really only differing in python and django-agnostic 
> coding as compared to functionality.
> 
> With that, I feel it's more prudent for us to implement our own field instead of relying on another
> implementation.  This should allow us to be more flexible with what our requirements are for this
> specific use case and keep it simple.
> 
> Before I move forward with this, does anyone else have any thoughts/concerns?
> 
> 
> 
> [0] https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/json-fields/
> [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160201155913/http://cramer.io/2009/04/14/cleaning-up-with-json-and
> -sql
> 
> 
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