Abstract

JSON library for working with django + json

Donors

• jsonify filter for Django based on http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/201/
• @ajax_request decorator from django-annoying https://bitbucket.org/offline/django-annoying (Anderson <self.anderson@gmail.com>)

Installation

To install you can use pip:

pip install django-jsonify

Then add jsonify to django settings.INSTALLED_APPS

Usage

If you want to convert varianble in django template, you can use jsonify filter:

{% load jsonify %}

{% block content %} <script type="text/javascript">
    <![CDATA[ var items = {{ items|jsonify }}; ]]></script>
{% endblock %}

If you want to return JSON data from view, you can use @ajax_request decorator

from jsonify.decorators import ajax_request

@ajax_request
def my_view(request):
    news = News.objects.all()
    news_titles = [entry.title for entry in news]
    return {'news_titles': news_titles}