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

You don't need to write your own "parser" (a parser would presumably turn JSON into a Python object), but you can still serialize your Python object yourself.

Using simplejson:

import simplejson as json
serialized = json.dumps({
    'filename': self.filename,
    'title': self.title,
    'date_taken': date_taken.isoformat(),
    # etc.
})