On Mar 1, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > The problem is that not everything is json and rss serializable.
In that case, we ought to have a more helpful error than "no json". You're suggesting that the json encoding call is failing? > What > does your action look like? > > On Mar 1, 5:18 am, darkblue_b <brian.darkbl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> as per the very simple instructions, I wrote a controller function to >> return a few items.. >> generic.html and generic.xml work, but generic.json and generic.rss >> fail >> >> just learning still, I searched the newsgroup and found >> >>> Lorin Rivers Jan 13, 2:26 pm >>> OK, if I specify which columns get returned in my rows, generic.json >>> returns "no json". >>> If my function returns rows.as_list(), generic.json works, but my >>> generic.csv breaks. >>> I figured out this, though, which seems to work, but I don't know if it's >>> wise. Also, it >doesn't seem like it should be necessary. >>> def function(): >>> dbset = db() >>> records = dbset.select(db.table.field1, db.table.field2, >>> orderby=db.table.field1) >>> otherrecords = records.as_list() >>> Then in my generic.csv, I use records and in generic.json I use >>> otherrecords. >>> -- >> >> does this apply ? is this a FAQ? >> I would like to get to authenticated JSON next >> thanks -Brian
