Special character (utf-8) in a django jsonresponse - json

Im using json response in django, but I have special characters (ñáé etc...)
my view
def get_agencies(request):
qr = Agency.objects.all()
qr_jason = serializers.serialize('json',qr)
return JsonResponse(qr_jason, safe=False)
But if I enter a special character like ñ in the json I recieve the ascii equivalent. Actually I can make a dictionary and then make the JasonResponse with the dictionary and it works, I can't find a way to use the serializers.serialize with utf-8.
json recieved (the u00f1 are ñ)
// 20170124165944
// http://localhost:8080/get_agencies/
"[
{
\"model\": \"items.agency\",
\"pk\": 1,
\"fields\": {
\"name\": \"asdk\\u00f1ld\",
\"tipo\": \"librevile\",
\"adress\": \"laslkfdli323,
ls\\u00f1\\u00f1\",
\"phone\": \"56549875\",
\"web\": \"http: //www.systmatic.com.mx\",
\"lat\": 23.514646,
\"lng\": -26.152684,
\"created\": \"2017-01-24T00: 56: 28.302Z\",
\"last_updated\": \"2017-01-24T22: 22: 08.856Z\"
}
}
]"

Faster solution:
def get_agencies(request):
qr = Agency.objects.all().values()
qr_list = list(qr)
return JsonResponse(qr_list, , safe=False, json_dumps_params={'ensure_ascii':False})

I know that you wrote that you would like to serialize using django.core.serializers.serialize but... you could do a workaround and serialize using json standard lib.
import json
def get_agencies(request):
qr = Agency.objects.all().values()
qr_json = json.dumps(list(qr), ensure_ascii=False, default=str)
return JsonResponse(qr_json, safe=False)
I've added default=str parameter to json.dumps because I saw that you have a datetime field in your model, so that should take care of that issue.

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I have a JSON file with some lines like:
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Django request Post json

I try to test a view, I receive a json request from the IPad, the format is:
req = {"custom_decks": [
{
"deck_name": "deck_test",
"updates_last_applied": "1406217357",
"created_date": 1406217380,
"slide_section_ids": [
1
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"deck_id": 1
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I post the req via:
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Thanks
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As I was having problems with getting JSON data from HttpRequest directly with the code of the other answer:
data = json.loads(request.body)
custom_decks = data['custom_decks']
error:
the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'
Here is an update of the other answer for Python version >3:
json_str=((request.body).decode('utf-8'))
json_obj=json.loads(json_str)
Regarding decode('utf-8'), as mention in:
RFC 4627:
"JSON text shall be encoded in Unicode. The default encoding is
UTF-8."
I attached the Python link referred to this specific problem for version >3.
http://bugs.python.org/issue10976
python 3.6 and django 2.0 :
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custom_decks = post_json.get("custom_decks")
json.loads(s, *, encoding=None,...)
Changed in version 3.6: s can now be of type bytes or bytearray. The input encoding should be UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32.
From python 3.6 NO need request.body.decode('utf-8') .
Since HttpRequest has a read() method loading JSON from request is actually as simple as:
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
import json
data = json.load(request)
return JsonResponse(data=data)
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#app.post('/location/API')
def post_json_example():
"""
param: _id, value
return: I usually return something like {"status": "successful", "message": "discription"}
"""
query_string = bottle.request.query.json
query_dict = bson_json.loads(query_string)
_id = query_dict['_id']
value = query_dict['value']
Then to Test
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s = request.Session()
r = s.post('http://youserver.com:8080/location/API?json
{"_id":"540a16663dafb492a0a7626c","value":"test"}')
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I wrote an helper to use the good idea of b0fh.
After 2 weeks on response.json analyzing, I connect to StackOver Flow and understand that we need a work around
Here is:
def json_app_rqt():
# about request
request.accept = 'application/json, text/plain; charset=utf-8'
def json_app_resp():
# about response
response.headers['Access-Control-Allow-Origin'] = _allow_origin
response.headers['Access-Control-Allow-Methods'] = _allow_methods
# response.headers['Access-Control-Allow-Headers'] = _allow_headers
response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json; charset=utf-8'
def json_app():
json_app_rqt()
json_app_resp()
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with TextIOWrapper(rqt.body, encoding = "UTF-8") as json_wrap:
json_text = ''.join(json_wrap.readlines())
json_data = json.loads(json_text)
return json_data
For the using, we cand do:
if __name__ == "__main__":
json_app()
#post("/train_control/:control")
def do_train_control(control):
json_app_resp()
data = get_json_request(request)
print(json.dumps(data))
return data
Thanks to all