Support MySQL JSON Fields

[sergiomb2]

as my $dayjob was looking support for mysql 5.7 with json fields , I tried

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-jsonfield 
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsonfield
from rest_framework.serializers import JSONField
from django.contrib.postgres.fields import JSONField
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-mysql

and as asked the same feature for postgres [1] I asked for mysql

Thanks
[1] #3170

[xordoquy]

Postgres support for JSON field has been made possible by Django supporting it.
Unless Django adds a support for a JSONField for MySQL, we won't add it to DRF.
You can still make it a 3rd party or integrate it "natively" in your project by doing something similar to:

serializer_field_mapping[ModelJSONField] = JSONField

[sergiomb2]

JFTR : this is done with django-mysql and serializer was fixed some days ago [1], is not yet in any release.

[1] adamchainz/django-mysql#353