JSON serialization of Google App Engine models

Question

I\'ve been searching for quite a while with no success. My project isn\'t using Django, is there a simple way to serialize App Engine models (google.appengine.ext.db.Model)

Answer 1

In the latest (1.5.2) release of the App Engine SDK, a to_dict() function that converts model instances to dictionaries was introduced in db.py. See the release notes.

There is no reference to this function in the documentation as of yet, but I have tried it myself and it works as expected.