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Databricks dialects does not seem to support Type Json

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, sqlalchemy
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start by reproducing the CompileError with the shown SQLAlchemy table definition and inspect the Databricks dialect's type compilation path for JSON. Done means the JSON column is handled by the dialect or the issue clearly documents a verified workaround.

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Description

CompileError: (in table 'runs', column 'params'): Compiler <sqlalchemy.sql.compiler.GenericTypeCompiler object
at 0x16e361210> can't render element of type JSON

This is part of the definition of my tables

class SomeTable(Base):
    params = Column(JSON, nullable=False, default={})
    ...

Is there a workaround or recommended way to deal with JSON type?

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