https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27288903/how-can-i-query-data-filtered-by-a-json-column-in-sqlalchemy
from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import JSON
from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
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db = SQLAlchemy()
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class Custom(db.Model):
__tablename__ = 'custom'
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data = db.Column(JSON)
...
data field are like this: [{"type": "a string", "value": "value string"}, {"type": "another", "value": "val"}, ...]
I want to query all custom objects that their data contain a {"type": "anything", "value": "what I want"}.
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from sqlalchemy.types import Unicode
# codes...
Custom.query.filter(Custom.data['value'].astext.cast(Unicode) == "what I want")
Documentation for this can be found here: http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/dialects/postgresql.html#sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql.JSON