I did a temporary hack... I edited encoder.py and changed s = s.decode('utf8') to s = s.decode('utf-8','ignore') and it works.. but Im not sure it will work on the google servers. . Any advice ? – yonny 18 mins ago
On Jun 3, 6:16 pm, uo <yon...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello people, > I'm developing an app on GAE using Django and I run into a > problem. I'm trying to return json to the front end and the serializer > is trying to serialize binary content in the form of a PNG, > consequently I get this error: > > Traceback: File "/media/disk/Projex/propertyPortal/prop/views/item.py" > in json 42. return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps({"items":[to_dict(i) > for i in Item.all()]}), mimetype='application/json') File "/usr/lib/ > python2.6/json/init.py" in dumps 230. return > _default_encoder.encode(obj) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py" > in encode 367. chunks = list(self.iterencode(o)) File "/usr/lib/ > python2.6/json/encoder.py" in _iterencode 309. for chunk in > self._iterencode_dict(o, markers): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/ > encoder.py" in _iterencode_dict 275. for chunk in > self._iterencode(value, markers): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/ > encoder.py" in _iterencode 306. for chunk in self._iterencode_list(o, > markers): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py" in > _iterencode_list 204. for chunk in self._iterencode(value, markers): > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py" in _iterencode 309. for > chunk in self._iterencode_dict(o, markers): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ > json/encoder.py" in _iterencode_dict 275. for chunk in > self._iterencode(value, markers): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/ > encoder.py" in _iterencode 294. yield encoder(o) File "/usr/lib/ > python2.6/json/encoder.py" in py_encode_basestring_ascii 63. s = > s.decode('utf-8') File "/usr/lib/python2.6/encodings/utf_8.py" in > decode 16. return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) > > Exception Type: UnicodeDecodeError at /property/json/ Exception Value: > 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 0: unexpected code > byte > > my model: > > class Item(db.Model): owner = db.UserProperty() title = > db.StringProperty(multiline=True) price = db.StringProperty() > primaryImage = db.BlobProperty() > > My question is how can I exclude the image from being serialized to > json? Please help . Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.