*> 2nd: Talking json to a WCF / .NET client * > My solution here was to modify simplejson so that it also escapes the '/' character, and just return '/Date(...)/' as my date value. This works, and (based on the same reasoning used by MS) is safe for anything. But I don't like it; Is there any simpler solution for that, that would escape *only*datetime values?
In case anyone is having the same problem, the following (inserted in my database model file) does this without having to modify the simplejson files directly: #PATCH simplejson to output data in the weird microsoft style from gluon.contrib.simplejson import encoder import re encoder.ESCAPE = re.compile(r'[\x00-\x1f\\/"\b\f\n\r\t]') encoder.ESCAPE_ASCII = re.compile(r'([\\/"]|[^\ -~])') encoder.ESCAPE_DCT['/'] = r'\/' del encoder del re Note that this escapes *every* use of slash (/), so it might not be what you want - but for now, it's good enough for me.
