JSON is still an adapter specific type.

Several changes were made in #21110 which I am strongly opposed to.
(this is what I get for going on vacation. :trollface:) No type should
be introduced into the generic `ActiveRecord::Type` namespace, and
*certainly* should not be registered into the registry unconstrained
unless it is supported by *all* adapters (which basically means that it
was specified in the ANSI SQL standard).

I do not think `# :nodoc:` ing the type is sufficient, as it still makes
the code of Rails itself very unclear as to what the role of that class
is. While I would argue that this shouldn't even be a super class, and
that MySql and PG's JSON types are only superficially duplicated (they
might look the same but will change for different reasons in the
future).

However, I don't feel strongly enough about it as a point of contention
(and the biggest cost of harming the blameability has already occured),
so I simply moved the superclass into a namespace where its role is
absolutely clear.

After this change, `attribute :foo, :json` will once again work with
MySQL and PG, but not with Sqlite3 or any third party adapters.

Unresolved questions
--------------------

The types that and adapter publishes (at least those are unique to that
adapter, and not adding additional behavior like `MysqlString` should
probably be part of the adapter's public API. Should we standardize the
namespace for these, and document them?

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb
index 861edbf3a2..27291bd2ea 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
           m.register_type 'bytea', OID::Bytea.new
           m.register_type 'point', OID::Point.new
           m.register_type 'hstore', OID::Hstore.new
-          m.register_type 'json', Type::Json.new
+          m.register_type 'json', OID::Json.new
           m.register_type 'jsonb', OID::Jsonb.new
           m.register_type 'cidr', OID::Cidr.new
           m.register_type 'inet', OID::Inet.new
@@ -838,6 +838,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
         ActiveRecord::Type.register(:enum, OID::Enum, adapter: :postgresql)
         ActiveRecord::Type.register(:hstore, OID::Hstore, adapter: :postgresql)
         ActiveRecord::Type.register(:inet, OID::Inet, adapter: :postgresql)
+        ActiveRecord::Type.register(:json, OID::Json, adapter: :postgresql)
         ActiveRecord::Type.register(:jsonb, OID::Jsonb, adapter: :postgresql)
         ActiveRecord::Type.register(:money, OID::Money, adapter: :postgresql)
         ActiveRecord::Type.register(:point, OID::Point, adapter: :postgresql)