Make TileModel.data not nullable

arches/app/models/migrations/11725_make_tiledata_not_nullable.py

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Generated by Django 5.2.dev20250109163842 on 2025-01-10 15:56
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ("models", "11725_add_blank_and_related_names"),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterField(
+            model_name="tilemodel",
+            name="data",
+            field=models.JSONField(blank=True, db_column="tiledata", default=dict),
+        ),
+    ]

arches/app/models/models.py

@@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@ class TileModel(models.Model):  # Tile
         related_name="children",
         related_query_name="child",
     )
-    data = JSONField(blank=True, null=True, db_column="tiledata")
+    data = JSONField(blank=True, default=dict, db_column="tiledata")
     nodegroup_id = models.UUIDField(db_column="nodegroupid", null=True)
     sortorder = models.IntegerField(blank=True, null=True, default=0)
     provisionaledits = JSONField(blank=True, null=True, db_column="provisionaledits")

releases/8.0.0.md

@@ -68,8 +68,9 @@ JavaScript:
 
 - `ensure_userprofile_exists()` was removed from the `Tile` model.
 
-- The following fields are no longer nullable. If you have custom SQL (or Python code that uses direct ORM operations to bypass model methods, etc.), you will need to set these fields directly on creation:
+- The following fields are no longer nullable. If you have custom SQL (or Python code that uses direct ORM operations to bypass model `save()`, etc.), you will need to set these fields directly on creation:
     - `Node.alias`
+    - `TileModel.data`
 
 - The following fields implemented [`related_name`](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ForeignKey.related_name) and [`related_query_name`](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ForeignKey.related_query_name) to improve upon the Django-supplied defaults:
     - `NodeGroup.parentnodegroup`