Thanks Russ,
Since my last post I've also discovered the the "values" option which
automatically converts the queery sets into a list of dictionaries.
data=MyModel.objects.values('field1', 'field2')
MerMer
On Apr 18, 12:48 am, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 4/18/07, Merric Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Via 'qs I can access the attribute and its value. However, 'data' does
> > not provide this extra attributes and value. Can anybody explain this -
> > is there a way I can do this?
>
> Not using the serialization framework. The serializer framework exists
> to serialize database objects; extra attributes on the object are not
> in the database, and so are not serialized.
>
> An alternative approach is to use the SimpleJSON library directly. Set
> up a python dictionary that contains the data structure you want to
> serialize (or write a proxy object that behaves like a dictionary),
> and pass it to the SimpleJSON library. A similar approach will work
> for XML.
>
> > Second Question.
> > Using json or xml is there a simple to only return the fields that I
> > need in a query set, rather than all the data?
>
> If you pass a fields=(...) option to the serializer, only the fields
> named will be serialized. e.g.:
>
> txt = serializers.serialize('json', data, fields=('attr1','attr2'))
>
> Yours,
> Russ Magee %-)
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