From 6a316f95d51209884f9644eb574b124ac747940c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kaspar Rosin <kaspar@optimistdigital.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:20:26 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update data attribute casting

---
 src/Models/Media.php | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Models/Media.php b/src/Models/Media.php
index 31474bf..3b6a41a 100644
--- a/src/Models/Media.php
+++ b/src/Models/Media.php
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;
+use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Casts\Attribute;
 use OptimistDigital\MediaField\Classes\MediaHandler;
 
 class Media extends Model
@@ -86,8 +87,11 @@ public function getFilePathAttribute()
         return str_replace('public/', '', $this->path) . $this->file_name;
     }
 
-    public function getDataAttribute($value)
+    protected function data(): Attribute
     {
-        return json_decode($value, true);
+        return Attribute::make(
+            get: fn ($value) => json_decode($value, true),
+            set: fn ($value) => is_string($value) ? $value : json_encode($value)
+        );
     }
 }

From baf4440a11697bc71e8d72daa6d47165e069b3ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kaspar Rosin <kaspar@optimistdigital.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 14:29:21 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update CHANGELOG.md

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 75750c2..821647b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ---
 
+## [3.0.2] - 13-06-2022
+
+### Added
+
+- Created a custom attribute mutator for `data` column.
+  - Keeping backwards compatibility.
+  - Existing `$media->data = json_encode($data)` will stay working.
+
 ## [3.0.1] - 11-03-2022
 
 ### Changed