Django serializer for one object

Question

I'm trying to figure out a way to serialize some Django model object to JSON format, something like:

j = Job.objects.get(pk=1) ############################################## #a way to get the JSON for that j variable??? ############################################## 

I don't want:

from django.core import serializers serializers.serialize('json', Job.objects.get(pk=1),ensure_ascii=False) 

Because it returns JSON array, not a single object representation.

Any ideas?

One way I'm thinking of: is to find a way to get a hash(attribute,value) of the object and then use simplejson to get the JSON representation of it, however I don't know how to get that hash.

Answer 1

How about just massaging what you get back from serializers.serialize? It is not that hard to trim off the square brackets from the front and back of the result.

job = Job.objects.get(pk=1) array_result = serializers.serialize('json', [job], ensure_ascii=False) just_object_result = array_result[1:-1] 

Not a fancy answer but it will give you just the object in json notation.

Answer 2

Method-1

Use Django Serializer with python format

from django.core import serializers  j = Job.objects.get(pk=1) response = serializers.serialize('python', [j], ensure_ascii=False)

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Method-2

use json format while serializing and loads the string response

import json from django.core import serializers  j = Job.objects.get(pk=1) json_str_response = serializers.serialize('json', [j], ensure_ascii=False) response = json.loads(json_str_response)[0]

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Method-3

Use Django REST Framework's Serializer class define a serializer class and serialize the instance as

from rest_framework import serializers   class JobSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):     class Meta:         model = Job         fields = '__all__'   j = Job.objects.get(pk=1) response = JobSerializer(instance=j).data 

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Reference
1. Serializer Django model object