How to overcome “datetime.datetime not JSON serializable”?

Question

I have a basic dict as follows:

sample = {}
sample[\'title\'] = \"String\"
sample[\'somedate\'] = somedatetimehere
         


        

Answer 1

I had encountered same problem when externalizing django model object to dump as JSON. Here is how you can solve it.

def externalize(model_obj):
  keys = model_obj._meta.get_all_field_names() 
  data = {}
  for key in keys:
    if key == 'date_time':
      date_time_obj = getattr(model_obj, key)
      data[key] = date_time_obj.strftime("%A %d. %B %Y")
    else:
      data[key] = getattr(model_obj, key)
  return data