Serialize the @property methods in a Python class

Question

Is there a way to have any @property definitions passed through to a json serializer when serializing a Django model class?

example:

class FooBar(obj         


        

Answer 1

You can get all of the properties of a class using some black magic:

def list_class_properties(cls):
    return [k for k,v in cls.__dict__.iteritems() if type(v) is property]

For example:

>>> class Foo:
       @property
       def bar(self):
           return "bar"

>>> list_class_properties(Foo)
['bar']

Then you can build the dictionary and serialize it from there.