Opened 6 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#29769 closed New feature
JSONField lookup and F Objects — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Gabor Körber | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | contrib.postgres | Version: | |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | F JSONField lookup |
| Cc: | Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy | Triage Stage: | Accepted |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Currently, it is rather undocumented, that F Functions do not perform JSON Lookups.
I suggest to either introduce a similar Object that is capable, or similar solution to make this possible; at the very least however, I suggest to add this information to the documentation for JSONField in django docs.
I stumbled on this when I tried to rewrite a raw statement in the form of
SELECT fields FROM schema WHERE lower(unaccent(jsonfield->lookup->>data)) LIKE lower(searchterm) ...
and also stumbled on stackoverflow dealing with this issue: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40623820/django-jsonfield-postgres-and-f-object-comparison
Note, that if lookups in F might not easily be adaptable, the stackoverflow question has a nice side effect of showing off a possible complementary solution: overwrite/extend __getitem__ for F objects to deal with json / subfield lookups.
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I thought brainstorming about such would be benefitial,
If I have overseen an already existing workaround I am eager to get corrected.