Sequelize JSON data type

Question

I have defined a model as

module.exports = function (sequelize, DataTypes) {
  const MyModel = sequelize.define(\'MyModel\', {
    data: {
      type: DataTypes         


        

Answer 1

It's not supported yet MySQL JSON Data Type #4727. But you can do something like this:

 module.exports = function (sequelize, DataTypes) {
      const MyModel = sequelize.define('MyModel', {
        data: {
          type: Sequelize.TEXT,
           get: function () {
                return JSON.parse(this.getDataValue('value'));
            },
            set: function (value) {
                this.setDataValue('value', JSON.stringify(value));
            },
    ,
          ...
        },
        ...
      });

      return MyModel;
};

I also found this package on github sequelize-json you can give it a try if you don't want to use getters and setters.