New field type: JSON

[JedWatson]

Would store a JSON string in the database, and have a nice renderer / editor in the Admin UI.

Could use pretty-stringify for formatting the JSON, and Code Mirror for editing.

Would validate JSON on save.

[jdarling]

Would be nice if it would take dirty JSON and clean it up:

input

{
  myKey: "My Value",
  "anotherKey": 'another value'
}

output

{"myKey": "My Value", "anotherKey": "Another Value"}

Personally I get so tired of having to drop to the console or node.js paste in perfectly valid code and then use JSON.stringify(obj) to get out "Valid" JSON.

[jorgecid]

or a tree editor:
https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor/
http://jsoneditoronline.org

[jbalde]

You can use "code" field.

Sample:

User.add({
    name: { type: Types.Name, required: true, index: true },
    email: { type: Types.Email, initial: true, required: true, index: true },
    password: { type: Types.Password, initial: true, required: false },
.....
    configuration: { type: Types.Code, lang: 'json' }
);

If language is json or javascript, show lint validator.

Supported languages:

• c
• c++
• objetivec
• css
• asp
• c#
• vb
• xml
• php
• html
• ini
• js
• java
• coffee
• lisp
• perl
• python
• sql
• json
• less
• sass
• sh
• ruby
• jsp
• tpl
• jade

[uptownhr]

problem with using "Types.Code" is that it will store the JSON as text. Meaning you will not be able to run queries against it. I really wish you can throw in raw objects. This is supported by mongodb, mongoose by default, why is this option not available?

[morenoh149]

@uptownhr someone has to code it. There's probably no technical reason blocking this.

[jbalde]

I created a field type Types.Json that store in mongo a JSON in raw format. I commit two pull requests to branch 0.3.x and master.

[kadosh1000]

Hi I have published my npm package:
https://github.com/kadosh1000/keystone-custom-fieldtypes

It allows you to create custom field types, and copy your custom fieldTypes from a selected dir into the keystone's fields dir and registers it.