darn, it must have slipped into the spam, sorry. thx for the reply On 4/4/07, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/4/07, Wolfram Kriesing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have summarized the problems I had with django's json serializer > > here > > http://wolfram.kriesing.de/blog/index.php/2007/json-serialization-for-django > > i would be very interested if I might be doing something completely > > wrong or if those are reall life problems other people have too. If so > > I would be interested to know if the suggested solution is relevant > > for django or if there are other solutions in sight? > > Repeating my reply on the blog, for the benefit of this mailing list: > > Thanks for the feedback on the serializers, Wolfram. > > Regarding your three issues: > > 1 - The issue of additional properties has been proposed previously > (ticket #3661), and has been rejected. The Django serializers are > intended for serializing Django objects. If you want to serialize > other structures (including dictionaries of arbitrary key-value > pairs), you can easily use the SimpleJSON interface, which is included > as part of Django (from django.utils import simplejson) > > 2 - The decimal issue is a known problem (ticket #3324); the fix isn't > completely trivial, and is problematic when you are trying to support > Python versions back to v2.3. Bug-free support for the Decimal type is > on the list of things to do; we just need to get around to it. > > 3 - We have a large number of unit tests that validate that > ForeignKeys can be serialized and deserialized without difficulty. Of > course, it is possible that we have missed a test case - if you have a > specific example that is failing, let us know. > > The meta-data in the serialization is there for de-serialization > purposes; without this information, it would not be possible to return > serialized objects to the database. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) > > > >
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