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

The built in serializer chokes with utf-8 cannot decode invalid start byte for some inputs. Instead, I went with:

def row_to_dict(row):
    temp = row.__dict__
    temp.pop('_sa_instance_state', None)
    return temp


def rows_to_list(rows):
    ret_rows = []
    for row in rows:
        ret_rows.append(row_to_dict(row))
    return ret_rows


@website_blueprint.route('/api/v1/some/endpoint', methods=['GET'])
def some_api():
    '''
    /some_endpoint
    '''
    rows = rows_to_list(SomeModel.query.all())
    response = app.response_class(
        response=jsonplus.dumps(rows),
        status=200,
        mimetype='application/json'
    )
    return response