JSONField, Django, PostgreSQL, retrieving data

Question

I have a JSONField which seems to be successfully storing a JSON as a string in my database.

How do I retrieve this data as a dictionary?

class Package:
    node = JSONField(null=True, blank=True)

packageInstance = Package.objects.get(id=packageId)
print(packageInstance.node)

Answer 1

Your packageInstance.node is a python dictionary already

The official docs verify it too https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/contrib/postgres/fields/#jsonfield

Simply put Django converts the json string to python dict automatically when you work with JSONField like you showed.