Dynamic object under a type

[spinelsun (Or Chen)]

Hi,

I have a type in my scheme that I want to expand with some metadata, which is dynamic.
The user enters whatever metadata he wants.
What I want to have in my type is a field that has a dictionary(JSON object) as a value.
Does DGraph any support for this? If not can you suggest a solution?

Thanks,
Spinelsun

[amaster507 (Anthony Master)]

Stringify the JSON and store it as a string.

[chewxy]

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