Please, add DictField field

[Nekmo]

Similar to ListField, but the keys are unique strings. This ensures that it is a primary key and easy access. For Example:

class Config(models.Base):
    users = DictField([User])

It will be serialized as:

{"users": {"Lucy": {"password": "...."}, "Bill": {"password": "......"}}}

[beregond]

@Nekmo you could use EmbeddedField for that with special model that keeps structure (and keys you are talking about).

Unless you want to have this dynamic, as in example?

[beregond]

I'm closing this issue, since I find this very non-JSON like (I tried "dict approach" few times - it is usually too hard to expand in future, plus you'd loose ability to validate it properly with json schema).

[jonnyyu]

I'm wondering how to define a model for a string dictionary like below. The keys are dynamic, and I need validation to check value is JSON serializable type.

{
   "environment": {
       "HOME": "/home/user",
       "MY_VAR": "1"
    }
}

[dsully]

+1 - I have some dynamic data. What's the right way to handle that?

FWIW, 'jsonobject' has a DictProperty which accomplishes this. Unfortunately that module doesn't work for my purposes due to other reasons.