Support nativ json datatype for mysql

rubyonrails-core
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Hi,

Mysql supports native json datatypes since version 5.7.8.

When will rails support this new feature?

Kind regards,

Marvin

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With the Attribute API in Rails 4.2 is should be already quite easy to add a new type and parse/serialize JSON there. You can try it in your app.

More details:

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_record/type/internal/abstract_json.rb

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/oid/json.rb

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Support was added a month ago Add a native JSON data type support in MySQL by kamipo · Pull Request #21110 · rails/rails · GitHub