diff --git a/src/baseexpression.cpp b/src/baseexpression.cpp
index 370fa9b..9a3bbfc 100644
--- a/src/baseexpression.cpp
+++ b/src/baseexpression.cpp
@@ -586,8 +586,13 @@ void BaseExpression::esc(const pt::WTextStream & val, pt::TextStream & stream, c
 void BaseExpression::esc(const pt::Space & space, pt::TextStream & stream, const FT & field_type)
 {
 	pt::WTextStream tmp_stream;
+	bool pretty_print = field_type.is_pretty_print();
+
+	if( field_type.is_space() )
+		space.serialize_to_space_stream(tmp_stream, pretty_print);
+	else
+		space.serialize_to_json_stream(tmp_stream, pretty_print);
 
-	space.serialize_to_space_stream(tmp_stream, true);
 	esc(tmp_stream, stream, field_type);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/dbconnector.cpp b/src/dbconnector.cpp
index ae312a3..bc1169d 100644
--- a/src/dbconnector.cpp
+++ b/src/dbconnector.cpp
@@ -722,14 +722,30 @@ void DbConnector::get_value(const char * value_str, pt::Space & field_value, con
 	{
 		pt::SpaceParser space_parser;
 
-		if( space_parser.parse_space(value_str, field_value) != pt::SpaceParser::ok )
+		if( field_type.is_space() )
 		{
-			field_value.clear();
-
-			if( log )
+			if( space_parser.parse_space(value_str, field_value) != pt::SpaceParser::ok )
 			{
-				(*log) << pt::Log::log2 << "Morm: I cannot correctly parse the Space struct from the datebase"
-					   << ", the raw string is: " << value_str << pt::Log::logend;
+				field_value.clear();
+
+				if( log )
+				{
+					(*log) << pt::Log::log2 << "Morm: I cannot correctly parse the Space struct (space format) from the datebase"
+						   << ", the raw string was: " << value_str << pt::Log::logend;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			if( space_parser.parse_json(value_str, field_value) != pt::SpaceParser::ok )
+			{
+				field_value.clear();
+
+				if( log )
+				{
+					(*log) << pt::Log::log2 << "Morm: I cannot correctly parse the Space struct (json format) from the datebase"
+						   << ", the raw string was: " << value_str << pt::Log::logend;
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/src/ft.h b/src/ft.h
index deacf1f..d725ea0 100644
--- a/src/ft.h
+++ b/src/ft.h
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ public:
 		dont_use_utf8 = 256,
 		hexadecimal =  512,
 		binary = 1024,
+		json = 2048,
+		space = 4096,
+		pretty_print = 8192,
 	};
 
 	/*
@@ -158,6 +161,20 @@ public:
 		return is_flag_set(binary);
 	}
 
+	bool is_json() const
+	{
+		return is_flag_set(json);
+	}
+
+	bool is_space() const
+	{
+		return is_flag_set(space);
+	}
+
+	bool is_pretty_print() const
+	{
+		return is_flag_set(pretty_print);
+	}
 
 };