With simplejson module (that is part of django distribution) you can covert
to JSON any python objects. So create data structure you need and pass it to
simplejson dump/dumps functions.
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 01:17, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Ok I'm using the following code to turn my model into JSON:
>
> from django.core import serializers
> json = serializers.serialize("json", Event.objects.all()[:5],
> fields=('title','date','location'))
>
> Now, this returns JSON like this:
>
> [
> { "pk": 1, "model": "events.event", "fields": {
> "date": "2008-11-04 00:00:00", "location": 1, "title":
> "Event 1"}
> },
> { "pk": 2, "model": "events.event", "fields": {
> "date": "2008-11-04 00:00:00", "location": 1, "title":
> "Event 2"}
> },
> { "pk": 3, "model": "events.event", "fields": {
> "date": "2008-11-05 00:00:00", "location": 1, "title":
> "Event 3"}
> },
> { "pk": 4, "model": "events.event", "fields": {
> "date": "2008-11-05 00:00:00", "location": 1, "title":
> "Event 4"}
> },
> ]
>
> But I want it to output like this:
>
> [
> { 'date' : '2008-11-04 00:00:00', 'dayEvents' : [
> { 'title' : 'Event 1', 'location' : '1', 'id' : '1' },
> { 'title' : 'Event 2', 'location' : '1', 'id' : '2' }
> ]},
> { 'date' : '2008-11-05 00:00:00', 'dayEvents' : [
> { 'title' : 'Event 3', 'location' : '1', 'id' : '3' },
> { 'title' : 'Event 4', 'location' : '1', 'id' : '4' }
> ]}
> ]
>
> The main difference is that the events are grouped by date, which
> makes it easier for me to loop through them the way I want to.
>
> Any ideas on how to achieve this, been looking in the documentation
> but nothing in there from what I can see :(
>
> The event model looks like this:
>
> title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
> date = models.DateTimeField()
> location = models.IntegerField(choices=LOCATION_CHOICES, default=1)
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
> >
>
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