On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:18 AM, darkblue_b 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 >
@jonathan: Yes, a more detailed error messages than "no json" would be awesome. @brian: if the other generics work, then it's probably a non-serializable value. In my case, it was a date object. Once I realized that, I converted the date to a string and it then worked peachily. -- Lorin Rivers Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com> <mailto:lriv...@mosasaur.com> 512/203.3198 (m)
