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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def db_value(self, value):
 """Store the value in the database. If the value is a dict like object, it is converted to a string before storing. """

        # Everything is encoded being before being surfaced
        value = flask.json.dumps(value)

        return super(JSONField, self).db_value(value)