I am trying to define a model with one column being a mysql json type. Searching on web results in suggestions related to django's postgresql support for JSONField type or django-jsonfield.
Is there currently no way django natively supports mysql's json type. Also while doing inspectdb a column of type json in mysql was assigned the type TextField with a comment This field type is a guess.
How would I declare my model in such a way that it supports json fields?
UPDATE
As of Django 3.2, it now supports JSONField and django-mysql JSONField is now deprecated.
Check out django-mysql.
Django-MySQL supports the JSON data type and related functions through JSONField plus some JSON database functions.
You've already found django-jsonfield, but here are some recent discussions you may be interested in:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/django-developers/mysql$20json%7Csort:relevance/django-developers/zfred27yVPg/U-4iNd_aAQAJ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/django-developers/mysql$20json%7Csort:relevance/django-developers/sAgYOqBUvgI/aLQH6vx5CAAJ
AFAIK there isn't anything native currently, but people seem interested in developing what you're looking for.
JSONField is supported on MariaDB 10.2.7+, MySQL 5.7.8+, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQLite 3.9.0+ (with the JSON1 extension enabled).
Details here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.JSONField
