[Python-ideas] Json object-level serializer (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Thu Jul 29 23:25:09 CEST 2010


Georg Brandl wrote:

Am 29.07.2010 14:31, schrieb M.-A. Lemburg:

Georg Brandl wrote:

Am 29.07.2010 13:35, schrieb Tarek Ziadé:

Hello,

What about adding in the json package the ability for an object to provide a different object to serialize ? This would be useful to translate a class into a structure that can be passed to json.dumps So, it json is provided, its used for serialization instead of the object itself:

import json class MyComplexClass(object): .... def json(self): .... return 'json' .... o = MyComplexClass() json.dumps(o) '"json"' You can do this with a very short subclass of the JSONEncoder: class MyJSONEncoder(JSONEncoder): def default(self, obj): return obj.json() # with a useful failure message Does that also work with the JSON C extension ? I think so. The C encoder gets the default function as an argument.

Then that sounds like the right way forward.

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