On Mar 3, 2011, at 8:44 PM, darkblue_b wrote: > > oh - I bet it is that web2py is expecting a field called id > whereas I define my own primary key 'pkey' and there is no 'id' > > assuming that is true, then tables with no primary key 'id' > are not serializable by json, but xml works ? > seems like a side effect and not intended behavior
That's possible. KeyError is hard to track down, because it's probably being raised implicitly from a failed dictionary access. Why it happens with json and not xml I have no idea, but the xml encoding logic is significantly different from the json code.
