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Type safe getters for JSON fields

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
database

Research direction

Start by inspecting the database layer’s existing getString API and how JSON fields are currently represented. Clarify the getter names, return types, decoding behavior, and test expectations before implementing the requested type-safe JSON access; the issue does not name specific files or tests.

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Description

enhancement

I've been working on an application where we've started adding JSON fields to our database, and I've seen a developer writing this:

$tagList = $row->getString("tags") ? json_decode($row->getString("tags")) : [];

An obvious code smell that would be greatly improved by some json functionality in the database layer.

Dominant language
PHP
Stars
4
Forks
3
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