Supporting JSON Fields in MySQL

js123

MySQL now supports table fields that store JSON data (http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2016/mysql-5-7-json-features). Are there any plans to add support for this to the Editor server-side libraries? Perhaps this is already supported and I just don't know how to use it, but if not it would be useful. I'm currently storing some JSON data in a text field, which is not ideal because it adds slashes, which I then have to remove each time. Plus as such I can't use the new search capabilities to easily filter queries by the JSON data.

Thanks for considering this.