API returns JSON custom field as string on certian ipam.prefix entries #16328
Description
Deployment Type
Self-hosted
NetBox Version
3.7.7
Python Version
3.10
Steps to Reproduce
I do not know what preconditions led to this.
We recently upgraded from NetBox 3.6.3 to 3.7.7, and now some of our tooling is receiving unexpected string responses for fields that should be JSON. If there were prior actions taken in our data to create a precondition for this, we do not know what it was.
Expected Behavior
For a JSON-typed custom field, we expected the API to return this custom field as JSON payload instead of a string
Observed Behavior
>>> for prefix in pynetbox_instance.ipam.prefixes.filter('10.30.15'):
... print(f"{prefix} custom_fields['references'] type: {type(prefix.custom_fields['references'])}")
...
10.30.150.0/24 custom_fields['references'] type: <class 'dict'>
10.30.151.0/24 custom_fields['references'] type: <class '**str**'>
2606:ae80:1415:150::/64 custom_fields['references'] type: <class 'dict'>
2606:ae80:1415:151::/64 custom_fields['references'] type: <class 'dict'>