Passing objects from Django to Javascript DOM

Question

I\'m trying to pass a Query Set from Django to a template with javascript.

I\'ve tried different approaches to solve this:

1. Normal Approach - Javas

Answer 1

You have to mark the string as safe to be sure it's not escaped.

in one of my project I use it like this:

# app/templatetag/jsonify.py
from django import template
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
import json

register = template.Library()

@register.filter
def jsonify(list):
    return mark_safe(json.dumps(list))

and in the template

{% load jsonify %}

but you may prefer to just add mark_safe or use |safe in the template to avoid all > stuff

If the problem is for handling complex python object you may have to do your handler like this: JSON datetime between Python and JavaScript