How to store arbitrary name/value key pairs in a Django model?

Question

I have a fixed data model that has a lot of data fields.

class Widget(Models.model):
    widget_owner = models.ForeignKey(auth.User)
    val1 = models.CharField()
            


        

Answer 1

When I had an object that could be completely customized by users, I created a field on the model that would contain some JSON in the column. Then you can just serialize back and forth when you need to use it or save it.

However, it does make it harder to use the data in SQL queries.