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

To serialize a Datastore Model instance you can't use json.dumps (haven't tested but Lorenzo pointed it out). Maybe in the future the following will work.

http://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html

import json
string = json.dumps(['foo', {'bar': ('baz', None, 1.0, 2)}])
object = json.loads(self.request.body)