From 749a83d7427b7ddc911eed68cdcb931f34f8efa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Renato Almeida de Oliveira <renato.almeida.oliveira@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:00:40 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Change JSONField, prepare_value to output str with enclosing
 " (#18846)

---
 netbox/utilities/forms/fields/fields.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/netbox/utilities/forms/fields/fields.py b/netbox/utilities/forms/fields/fields.py
index 8d4863544..25e888bf2 100644
--- a/netbox/utilities/forms/fields/fields.py
+++ b/netbox/utilities/forms/fields/fields.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ class JSONField(_JSONField):
             try:
                 value = json.loads(value, cls=self.decoder)
             except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
-                return value
+                return f'"{value}"'
         return json.dumps(value, sort_keys=True, indent=4, ensure_ascii=False, cls=self.encoder)