Output Django queryset as JSON

Question

I want to serialize my queryset, and I want it in a format as this view outputs:

class JSONListView(ListView):
    queryset = Users.objects.all()

    def ge         


        

Answer 1

If the goal is to build an API that allow you to access your models in JSON format I recommend you to use the django-restframework that is an enormously popular package within the Django community to achieve this type of tasks.

• Django Rest Framework Website
• Github

It include useful features such as Pagination, Defining Serializers, Nested models/relations and more. Even if you only want to do minor Javascript tasks and Ajax calls I would still suggest you to build a proper API using the Django Rest Framework instead of manually defining the JSON response.