JSON is appearing as unicode entities in Jinja2 template

Question

I using Jinja2 with webapp2.

Jinja2 encodes all \'context\' data into unicode as their doc says. This is proving problematic when I try to insert a json string into

Answer 1

If you don't need to act on the array in the Jinja side, but just need to pass the packet to javascript, I would recommend using:

json.dumps(python_object_or_array)

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

This stringified variable, when passed into jinja gets passed down to javascript without getting the pythonic unicode markings on variables. And incidentally, will likely fix True and False getting fixed to true and false as javascript would expect.

So in the context of flask, it would look something like this:

@app.route('/')
def home():
     if userNeedsToLogin():
          session['routePath'] = request.full_path
          return render_template('login.html', error=None)
     else:
          return render_home()

def render_home():
     print "Rendering Home"
     results = get_some_database_query_results()
     data_out = json.dumps(results)
     return render_template('home.html', data=data_out)

home.html