Django: List field in model?

Question

In my model, I want a field that has a list of triplets. e.g. [[1, 3, 4], [4, 2, 6], [8, 12, 3], [3, 3, 9]]. Is there a field that can store this data in the da

Answer 1

If you're on Django 1.10 or newer AND Postgres as your database, you can use ArrayField. It's better to use than django-taggit or other alternatives, as it's native to the Django framework. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/contrib/postgres/fields/#arrayfield

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.postgres.fields import ArrayField

class ChessBoard(models.Model):
    board = ArrayField(
        ArrayField(
            models.CharField(max_length=10, blank=True),
            size=8,
        ),
        size=8,
    )

If you're on Django 3.1 or newer they've added support for JSONField with most database backends (MariaDB 10.2.7+, MySQL 5.7.8+, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite 3.9.0+). You can use this to store your Array!

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/ref/models/fields/#jsonfield

from django.db import models

class ChessBoard(models.Model):
    list_of_pieces = models.JSONField()