Django model with value as a special HTML character code - html

Question

I am confused on how to implement a Django model with the value being a special html character code for making a chessboard.
As a reference I'm looking at a sudoku board model:
class Board(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=4, primary_key=True)
value = models.SmallIntegerField()
The value for sudoku is easy, since the table will only be filled with numbers.
For reference here's a snippet from the sudoku page_data dictionary in views.py giving each table cell its appropriate value:
{"r1c1": 6, "r1c2": 7, "r1c3": 0, ...}
I don't know what to put for my model's value variable:
class Board(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=2, primary_key=True)
value =
Here's a snippet of where I assign the name/value pairs in my views.py with the special HTML chess piece character codes in my own page_data dictionary:
{"a8": html.unescape('♖'), "b8": html.unescape('♘'), "c8": html.unescape('♗'), ...}
Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

So you are looking for a way to store your json data in a django model field.
One option would be to convert your json data to a string and store it in a Charfield.
class Board(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=4, primary_key=True)
value = models.CharField(blank=True, null=True)
Then convert your json data to a string with the following code:
import json
data = {"r1c1": 6, "r1c2": 7, "r1c3": 0}
Board.objects.create(name="bo", value=json.dumps(data))
You can use the json data in the template by using the safe tag:
from django.utils.safestring import SafeString
def view(request):
return render(request, 'template.html', {'board': SafeString(my_board.value)})
If you do not want to convert your json to string, you can take a look at the JSONField.