import json from django import forms from django.utils import six from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _ __all__ = ['JSONField'] class InvalidJSONInput(six.text_type): pass class JSONField(forms.CharField): default_error_messages = { 'invalid': _("'%(value)s' value must be valid JSON."), } widget = forms.Textarea def to_python(self, value): if self.disabled: return value if value in self.empty_values: return None try: return json.loads(value) except ValueError: raise forms.ValidationError( self.error_messages['invalid'], code='invalid', params={'value': value}, ) def bound_data(self, data, initial): if self.disabled: return initial try: return json.loads(data) except ValueError: return InvalidJSONInput(data) def prepare_value(self, value): if isinstance(value, InvalidJSONInput): return value return json.dumps(value)