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 you're using mysql (haven't tried with other databases), using both DRF's new JSONField and Mark Chackerian's suggested JSONSerializerField will save the json as a {u'foo': u'bar'} string. If you rather save it as {"foo": "bar"}, this works for me:

import json

class JSONField(serializers.Field):
    def to_representation(self, obj):
        return json.loads(obj)

    def to_internal_value(self, data):
        return json.dumps(data)