Sorry for the noise. I am such a noob :) I posted a wrong link to thepost about "islambda" function. The correct one is: http://kbyanc.blogspot.com/2007/05/python-islambda.html
Amnon On Sep 2, 7:12 pm, Amnon Khen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > As a quick workaround, I thought of modifying serializers.custom_json > in the following manner: > 1. check whether the item is a lambda expression > 2. if so, return its string representation (using repr()) > > I used a nice "islambda" function I found > inhttp://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/39908-what-lambda-used-real-code > > I guess there's no point in returning the string represntation of the > function to the user, so this probably won't be the final solution to > this issue. > > What do yo think about this fix? > > Sincerely, > Amnon > > On Sep 2, 6:57 pm, Amnon Khen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Dear web2py folks, > > > I have a controller that fetches a record from the DB (I'm using > > GAE). > > > def event(): > > id=request.args[0] > > myrow = db.event[id] > > return dict(myrow = myrow) > > > What I try to render the result as JSON, I get the following error > > (trace starts from generic.json view) > > > File "C:\Users\Hampi\git\skeduk\web2py\gluon\serializers.py", line > > 30, in custom_json > > raise TypeError(repr(o) + " is not JSON serializable") > > TypeError: <function <lambda> at 0x05EA7A30> is not JSON > > serializable > > > When I try to render the same controller's result using the > > generic.xml view, the rending is done OK, nad I see that "function > > <lambda> at 0x05EA7A30" is the row's "update_record" method. > > > Why are my object's methods being serialized? > > Is this a bug in the custom_json function in serializers.py? > > > Thanks for you help, > > Amnon Khen
