[Contributing] Thoughts on adding a contrib folder for dataclass support?

[ghost]

Hi @bhch , I'm working on a project which requires django-jsonform + dataclasses-jsonschema.

I feel this project could be quite useful to the Django community. So I want to make this functionality public.

Would you be OK if I make PRs to add a contrib/dataclasses folder?

E.g., from django_jsonform.contrib.dataclasses import DataclassJSONField

[bhch]

Could you please describe the use case for DataclassJSONField?

[ghost]

In the Python code, we'd work with dataclasse, rather than Dicts.

In the DB, it gets stored as a JSON.

Basically dataclass with a JSON schema get serialized/deserialized as JSON.

[ghost]

This makes good sense for django-jsonform because when you require a json schema, then you expect structure. Then the Dataclass would provide structure and utility for the Python side.

[ghost]

Pseudo code example:

@dataclass
class Foo:
    x: int

class MyModel:
    foo = DataclassJSONField(Foo)
    foo_list = DataclassJSONField(Foo, many=True)

m = MyModel.objects.first()

assert isinstance(m.foo, Foo)

assert isinstance(m.foo_list, list)
assert isinstance(m.foo_list[0], Foo)

[bhch]

That does sound useful. Alright, I'm open to include this in the library. Kindly open a PR. Thank you.

[dongyuzheng]

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