Revert "Revert "Merge pull request #16059 from jenncoop/json-serialized-attr""

This reverts commit 6f3c64eeb1dc8288dae49f114aaf619adc7dcb7f.

Conflicts:
	activerecord/CHANGELOG.md

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/test/cases/serialized_attribute_test.rb b/activerecord/test/cases/serialized_attribute_test.rb
index 186a1a2ade..a8f667c732 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/cases/serialized_attribute_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/cases/serialized_attribute_test.rb
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@ require 'models/topic'
 require 'models/reply'
 require 'models/person'
 require 'models/traffic_light'
+require 'models/post'
 require 'bcrypt'
 
 class SerializedAttributeTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
-  fixtures :topics
+  fixtures :topics, :posts
 
   MyObject = Struct.new :attribute1, :attribute2
 
@@ -67,6 +68,19 @@ class SerializedAttributeTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
     assert_equal(orig.content, clone.content)
   end
 
+  def test_serialized_json_attribute_returns_unserialized_value
+    Topic.serialize :content, JSON
+    my_post = posts(:welcome)
+
+    t = Topic.new(content: my_post)
+    t.save!
+    t.reload
+
+    assert_instance_of(Hash, t.content)
+    assert_equal(my_post.id, t.content["id"])
+    assert_equal(my_post.title, t.content["title"])
+  end
+
   def test_serialized_attribute_declared_in_subclass
     hash = { 'important1' => 'value1', 'important2' => 'value2' }
     important_topic = ImportantTopic.create("important" => hash)