saving html content as json in django db

Question

I'm using DJango to save some html designs in my db. For example here 'Body' has some html content:

When I serialize the content into json, it seems like the html tags get eliminated:

from django.core import serializers

def list_templates(request):
    # retrieve all the templates from the DB
    all_templates = Template.objects.all()
    return HttpResponse(serializers.serialize('json', all_templates))

Here is what I see:

Any recommendations on best practices for saving html codes and their serialization?

Possbile duplicate: stackoverflow.com/questions/2137736/…

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2017-10-03 09:47:17 +00:00
Commented Oct 3, 2017 at 9:47 — tread
– tread, Commented Oct 3, 2017 at 9:47

Herbert · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-03 09:07:52Z

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I'm not sure why you would store your whole body in the DB but I'm using TinyMCE for storing and editing dynamic HTML. Here's the documentation: readthedocs.io
Just do the following:

# Imports
from django.db import models
from tinymce import models as tinymce_models

#models.py
class MyTemplate(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(...)
    describe = models.TextField(...)
    body = tinymce_models.HTMLField()

This should give you the desired result without having to serialize data by yourself. You may have to include TinyMCE into your Django-Admin separately.

answered Oct 3, 2017 at 9:07

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May.D · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-03 04:11:49Z

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Despite Django's ORM that seems me quite hasardous to store code straight as text. I would recommand you use a FileField to save directly the HTML (or whatever extension) file in your DB.

If you need to do it from a textarea input as in a form, read and write the content of the textarea in a .txt or .html file with Python open() function and then store it with a FileField.

answered Oct 3, 2017 at 4:11

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May.D Over a year ago

May I know why this answer was down-voted and wont fit for you issue ?

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