Use JSONResponse to serialize a QuerySet in Django 1.7?

Question

I saw that now in Django 1.7 I can use the http.JSONResponse object to send JSON to a client. My View is:

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Answer 1

You shouldn't re-serialize with JsonResponse. You'll get a correctly formatted JSON response with:

from django.core import serializers
from django.http import HttpResponse

def my_view(request):
    my_model = MyModel.objects.all()
    response = serializers.serialize("json", my_model)
    return HttpResponse(response, content_type='application/json')

If you use a JsonResponse, it will coerce the already serialized JSON to a string, which is probably not what you want.

Note: Works with Django 1.10