Re: Using filter for serialized model.Field's

2011-12-23 Thread jrief
Hi, as a workaround, I added an additional column (aka CharField) to store the hash of that JSON string. Then only the hashes have to be compared. Sure, this is not an elegant solution, as it adds redundant data to your database. If I would write SQL by hand, I could compare the JSON-string usin

Re: Using filter for serialized model.Field's

2011-12-22 Thread Matt Schinckel
I'm guessing it's got to do with testing for equality. It will be restricted to how the field prepares data for querying the database, and (speaking as the maintainer of JSONField) you need to be very careful with querying on json fields, as the data is stored as a string, so changes about how