Thanks On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 2:44:25 PM UTC-7, Michael Merickel wrote: > > Colander is not suitable for serializing to json - its cstruct format is > always strings. In my experience the only use of colander's serialization > is for use with deform - however it's great for deserializing json to an > appstruct. It's been a common complaint over the years but nothing much has > been done to sort it out due to bw-compatibility issues. > > If I were looking to serialize data to json and validate it, I'd recommend > instead converting it to a json-compatible cstruct first, and then > validating it (via deserialize) and skip serialize altogether. > Alternatively you might look at the marshmallow library instead of colander > which probably does a better job of coercing types while serializing. > > appstruct = person.to_dict() > if validate(appstruct, PersonSchema()): > return json.dumps(appstruct) > > - Michael > > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Alex Kessinger <void...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi, I have a question about the appropriate use of Colander to go from a >> python object to JSON >> >> Let's say I have a django model called Person, and a schema called >> PersonSchema. >> >> Would this be an appropriate way to take a person model to json? >> >> person = Person.objects.get(pk=1) >> appstruct = person.to_dict() >> cstruct = PersonSchema().serialize(appstruct) >> response_body = json.dumps(cstruct) >> >> Is this about right? Should I instead just be going from dict to json? >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "pylons-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to pylons-devel...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to pylons...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >
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