How to serialize SqlAlchemy result to JSON?

Question

Django has some good automatic serialization of ORM models returned from DB to JSON format.

How to serialize SQLAlchemy query result to JSON format?

I tried

Answer 1

A more detailed explanation. In your model, add:

def as_dict(self):
       return {c.name: str(getattr(self, c.name)) for c in self.__table__.columns}

The str() is for python 3 so if using python 2 use unicode(). It should help deserialize dates. You can remove it if not dealing with those.

You can now query the database like this

some_result = User.query.filter_by(id=current_user.id).first().as_dict()

First() is needed to avoid weird errors. as_dict() will now deserialize the result. After deserialization, it is ready to be turned to json

jsonify(some_result)