On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:26:45 AM UTC-4, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > On 30 Jul 2013, at 12:22 AM, Niphlod <nip...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > can you explain better what's going on ? the generic json view (as any > other view) is made to serialize a python object to something (in json's > case, a json string). > If you already return a string because your code encodes it already, than > you don't need any view, because the job the view usually does has been > done already by your code. > > > The explanation isn't quite clear. I believe he's returning a list, > intending that to be serialized as JSON. But web2py serializes anything > that's not a dict as a string, so generic.json (for example) is never used. > > The question is: what should happen when a controller returns a list? The > JSON serializer is happy to serialize a list. Is there any downside in > doing it? Does it make any sense right now for a controller to return a > list? > > Exactly. Apologies for lack of clarity.
Matt > > On Monday, July 29, 2013 11:07:35 PM UTC+2, Matt wrote: >> >> Hi, >> We're running into an issue with our restful api where a certain method >> is returning a json string (eg: " ['one', 'two', 'three'] "), however >> web2py wants to render this as a string even when the request.extension is >> forced to json, and the response.view is forced to generic.json. I've >> tracked the issue down to gluon/main.py:231 where it checks if "page" is a >> dict, and what seems to be happening is that the valid json string above is >> instead being concatenated as a string representation. Adding this below >> the check for dict seems to fix it, but I'm not sure how well it fixes the >> problem: >> >> elif isinstance(page, list): >> response._vars = page >> run_view_in(response._view_environment) >> page = response.body.getvalue() >> >> Any suggestions for other ways to go about fixing this? >> >> Thanks, >> Matt >> >> > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
