Django filter JSONField list of dicts

Question

I run Django 1.9 with the new JSONField and have the following Test model :

class Test(TimeStampedModel):
    actions = JSONField()

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Answer 1

You can use the django-jsonfield package, I guess it's already the one you are using.

from jsonfield import JSONField
class Test(TimeStampedModel):
    actions = JSONField()

So to search to make a search with a specific property, you can just do this:

def test_filter(**kwargs):
    result = Test.objects.filter(actions__contains=kwargs)
    return result

If you are using PostgreSQL, maybe you can take advantage of PostgreSQL specific model fields.

PS: If you are dealing with a lot of JSON structure you have maybe to consider using NoSQL Database.