Database JSON support required

I ran into some trouble applying #5 as the file was formatted as UTF-16. This version of the patch is reformatted as UTF-8, but is otherwise identical to #5. Can confirm it works as expected talking to an SQL Server 2017 database.

As far as I can tell the hasJson method is the only thing we need to do at this stage, other stuff relating to json appears to be still active in core at the moment, such as mapping json data types in the schema API etc.

I've now committed this to 4.4.x for inclusion in the next dev release. I've encountered no issues with this when running the Drupal 10 installer with an SQL Server database, and have confirmed the Status Report shows 'Database support for JSON' as being 'Available'. I think this is therefore all done, however I'll keep this issue at 'Needs Review' while the 4.4.x branch is in development and testing, and we'll move to 'Fixed' once we're ready to release 4.4.0 as stable.

Hello,

I have installed 4.4.x-dev, but I am still getting this error when I run update.php, and it is not allowing me to do the upgrade:

Requirements problem
Errors found
Database support for JSON
Not available
Is required in Drupal 10.0.

Here are the files in question (on left), compared to a clean install of Drupal 10.1 on the right:

@.Kris. What version of SQL Server are you currently using? Note that JSON support is only available in SQL Server 2016 (13.x) and later.

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.