Generally, we can define __str__ method to make str(obj) return what we want.
But now I want to define my Model object to return a default JSON string when using json.dumps(obj).
Is there any nice way for me to declare a method in the class to do this?
class MyClass:
...
def __json__(self):
return {'name': self.name, 'age': self.age}
obj = MyClass()
json.dumps(obj) # returns the same as json.dumps(obj.__json__)
解决方案
If you only need Python -> JSON, it's simple to write a JSONEncoder class that calls such a method for any object:
class AutoJSONEncoder(JSONEncoder):
def default(self, obj):
try:
return obj._json()
except AttributeError:
return JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)
You can then use the class directly AutoJSONEncoder().encode(obj) or through the dumps interface json.dumps(obj, cls=AutoJSONEncoder).
The reverse direction requires at least a list of classes for which to call a _fromjson method.
(Note: __foo__ names are reserved so you shouldn't define them for your own purposes. __bar invokes name mangling, which probably isn't what you want.)