[GitHub] [airflow] dimberman opened a new issue #7924: First class support for JSON variables

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dimberman opened a new issue #7924: First class support for JSON variables
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/7924
 
 
   
   
   **Description**
   
   
                       Looking at our variables, every single one of them is JSON, the largest being 100 lines long. I will assume that most other users are mainly using JSON vars as well.
   
   I can think of a few quality of life changes that could be made to make working with these variables easier:
   
   
   	Make the 'Val' field on /admin/variable/edit use a fixed width font. This would probably not hurt non-JSON users either.
   	Add JSON syntax highlighting to the textarea there.
   	Add optional JSON syntax validation; perhaps a boolean flag in the DB for whether the var is supposed to be JSON. If true, reject updates with non-valid JSON syntax to the variable, and perhaps don't require deserialize_json=True to be specified in the code every time it's accessed.
   	This last one might be a bit far-fetched, but: Make it possible to add a JSON schema file that will be validated against on updates.
   
   
   
   Let me know if you want these split into separate JIRA issues.
               
   
   **Use case / motivation**
   
   **Related Issues**
   
   Moved here from https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRFLOW-310

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