django orm JSONField for mysql

Question

I am trying to define a model with one column being a mysql json type. Searching on web results in suggestions related to django's postgresql support for JSONField type or django-jsonfield.

Is there currently no way django natively supports mysql's json type. Also while doing inspectdb a column of type json in mysql was assigned the type TextField with a comment This field type is a guess.

How would I declare my model in such a way that it supports json fields?

Answer 1

UPDATE

As of Django 3.2, it now supports JSONField and django-mysql JSONField is now deprecated.

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Check out django-mysql.

Django-MySQL supports the JSON data type and related functions through JSONField plus some JSON database functions.