It is not relevant anymore, the plan is move to FastAPI and use Pydantic models instead.

PS.: I probably have a bunch of tickets like this one that became obsolete, I'll go over my backlog epic and review them.

Angelo Fausti is this ticket still relevant or should it be closed?

See also https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/designing-a-restful-api-using-flask-restful on how to use fields and marshal function to improve the current implementation based on reqparse.

We are using request parser to for validation of the request parameters and request body and it seems enough for now, see work on DM-9741. Thus I am moving this one to the backlog.

See issue:
https://github.com/adamchainz/django-mysql/issues/342

The lack of support for JSON field in Django and MariaDB is one of the reasons we want to migrate the SQuaSH API to Flask + SQLAlchemy. We are looking into https://marshmallow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html# for the new implementation.

The result of this investigation should be a proof of concept to demonstrate that we can use MariaDB 10.2 JSON field support with Flask + SQLAlchemy.