Django Rest Framework and JSONField

Question

Given a Django model with a JSONField, what is the correct way of serializing and deserializing it using Django Rest Framework?

I\'ve already tried crating a custom

Answer 1

If and only if you know the first-level style of your JSON content (List or Dict), you can use DRF builtin DictField or ListField.

Ex:

class MyModelSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    my_json_field = serializers.DictField()

It works fine, with GET/PUT/PATCH/POST, including with nested contents.