On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 11:51:08 AM UTC-4, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > On 30 Jul 2013, at 8:34 AM, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > 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? > > > Here is a snippit of what we are trying to do:
import simplejson @request.restful() def jsonlisttest(): response.view = 'generic.json' def GET(*args, **vars): sample_raw_rpc_response = '["one", "two", "three"]' sample_rpc_response = simplejson.loads(sample_raw_rpc_response) return sample_rpc_response def POST(*args, **vars): return dict() def PUT(*args, **vars): return dict() def DELETE(*args, **vars): return dict() return locals() > A list directly (see the code fragment below). > > Since generic.json serializes response._vars, it doesn't care about > anything in env. You *could* write a view that accepts a dict with a list > (or dict) as a well-known name and serialize that, but it's not what > generic.json does. > > > 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.
