Sqlalchemy json column - how to preform a contains query

Question

I have the following table in mysql(5.7.12):

class Story(db.Model):
    sections_ids = Column(JSON, nullable=False, default=[])

section

Answer 1

For whoever get here, but is using PostgreSQL instead: your fields should be of the type sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql.JSONB (and not sqlalchemy_utils.JSONType) -

Then you can use the Comparator object that is associated with the field with its contains (and others) operators.

Example:

Query(Mymodel).filter(MyModel.managers.comparator.contains(["user@gmail.com"]))

(note that the contained part must be a JSON fragment, not just a string)