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Asked: 2026-05-16T09:15:55+00:00

How do I go about returning json data from a bottle request handler. I

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How do I go about returning json data from a bottle request handler. I see a dict2json method in the bottle src but I am not sure how to use it.

What is in the documentation:

@route('/spam')
def spam():
    return {'status':'online', 'servertime':time.time()}

Gives me this when I bring up the page:

<html>
    <head></head>
    <body>statusservertime</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Simply return a dict. Bottle handles the conversion to JSON for you.

    Even dictionaries are allowed. They are converted to json and returned with Content-Type header set to application/json. To disable this feature (and pass dicts to your middleware) you can set bottle.default_app().autojson to False.

    @route('/api/status')
def api_status():
    return {'status':'online', 'servertime':time.time()}

    Taken from the documentation.

    http://bottlepy.org/docs/stable/api.html#the-bottle-class

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