fix(core): rework JSON value processing #4194
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Every driver behaves a bit differently when it comes to handling JSON columns. While SQLite is not processing then anyhow, and MongoDB supports them natively, all the others have rather quirky and not very configurable JSON parsing and stringification implemented. It is crucial to have the JSON values properly parsed, as well as normalized in the entity snapshot, so we can correctly detect updates.
This PR makes the JSON parsing fail-safe, returning the value directly if it is not a valid JSON string, and ensures the entity data are in the right shape.
Closes #4193