django restframework: How to add an array name - json

Question

Lets say I have a simple django model:
class Snippet(models.Model):
created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
title = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True, default='')
When I display info from it as JSON through the django web framework I get this:
[{"id": 1, "title": "hello"}, {"id": 2, "title": "world"}]
How would I add an array title to the generated JSON? Like so:
["books" :{"id": 1, "title": "hello"}, {"id": 2, "title": "world"}]

Answer 1

So your client API requires the JSON to be an object instead of an array (there was a security rationale for it when using the browser built-in javascript parser to parse JSON but I forgot the reason)...
If your client API does not mind the extra fields added by PaginationSerializer, you can do:
class BookSerializer(pagination.BasePaginationSerializer):
results_field = "books"
class BookListView(generics.ListAPIView):
model = Book
pagination_serializer_class = BookSerializer
paginate_by = 9999
This will result:
{
'count': 2,
'next': null,
'previous': null,
'books': [
{"id": 1, "title": "hello"},
{"id": 2, "title": "world"}
]
}
[update]
The security reason for avoiding an array as the JSON root is JSON Hijacking. Basically, a clever hacker could override the array constructor in order to do nasty things. Only relevant if your API are answering GET requests and using cookies for authentication.