Question about django.core.serializers

[ska...@gmail.com]

I was very excited to hear about the new json serializer code that has
been added into Django. While going over it I found myself wondering
why I could only serialize a queryset and not just a single object.

Is there a reason why I am not allowed to serialize
MyObject.objects.get(pk=1)?

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

On Jul 6, 2006, at 11:01 AM, ska...@gmail.com wrote:
> I was very excited to hear about the new json serializer code that has
> been added into Django. While going over it I found myself wondering
> why I could only serialize a queryset and not just a single object.

You can serialize any iterable, so just do:

serializers.serialize("xml", [object])

Why? Consistency; it turned out to be a pain to always have to check
weather serialized data was a list of objects or a single object.
It's easier to just always deal with lists (since that's the common
case anyway).

Jacob