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Evaluate None in SQLAlchemy's extended JSON type decorator
closes: #22245
As of today, at least in mapped operators for map_index > 0, the next_kwargs column is saved as the string null in the DB, instead of a real <null>. That is unlike mapped operators with indeces -1 or 0, as well as unmapped operators.
As far as I'm concerned, this inconsistency doesn't affect any logic that depends on it, since it is still deserialized as Python's None - but it will be nice to save a few bytes and ensure consistency.
While I haven't figured out why it happens only in that case - I've found that applying the flag should_evaluate_none = True seems to solve it. I didn't find a proper way to test it, since it is always deserialized as Python's None.
Mapped operators are yet to be implemented in the main with the new task sdk, but if tests won't indicate that it breaks anything - I think that it will be ok to merge.
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