How to a serialize model field that holds raw JSON?

Question

Supposing I have a field in my model that stores raw JSON (so containing double quotes, null, false etc.):

class Activity(models.Model):
    textjson = models.TextField(default="Unassigned")

how do I serialize this model so that the API response will not contain backslashes, the sign of double serialization?

Possible duplicate of [Django Rest Framework and JSONField](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22434869/django-rest-framework-and-jsonfield) — Dušan Maďar, Dec 16 '18 at 20:02

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 16 '18 at 20:04

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If you use PostrgeSQL so you can use JSONFIeld to avoid serialization. To convert raw text to JSON use

json.loads(string)

or to get string from json

json.dumps(json)

answered Dec 16 '18 at 20:04

nick nick

`segment_efforts` is dumped already - it is raw JSON text. The serializer turns it to text again and backslashes appear. And `json.loads` gives Python object, not text. – barciewicz Dec 16 '18 at 20:09
loads() returns dict. As it written above. Which serializer adds slashes to text? – nick nick Dec 16 '18 at 20:20

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