Can you show your code? You say you "return locals()", but locals() produces a dictionary, so it should ultimately execute a view. Or are you just returning the list directly?
Anthony On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:28:53 AM UTC-4, Matt wrote: > > > > 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> 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.
