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

There's a method, "Model.properties()", defined for all Model classes. It returns the dict you seek.

from django.utils import simplejson
class Photo(db.Model):
  # ...

my_photo = Photo(...)
simplejson.dumps(my_photo.properties())

See Model properties in the docs.