[Pulp-dev] JSON Field Implementation

[Michael Hrivnak]

Agreed. It's so simple, let's just make one and use it. Trying to use a
pre-existing one might actually end up being more work.

Michael

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Jeff Ortel <jortel at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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