Question

I am using appengine, webapp2 framework.
I have the following model:

class Match(db.Model):
    date_time = db.DateTimeProperty()
    team1 = db.StringProperty()
    team2 = db.StringProperty()
    venue = db.StringProperty()
    result = db.IntegerProperty()

Now on the client side, an event makes a post request to one of my views, based on that post request, i want to send json data which easily readable by jQuery/javascript.

What would be the best way of doing it?

Answer 1

in the models:

class DictModel(db.Model):
    def to_dict(self):
       return dict([(p, unicode(getattr(self, p))) for p in self.properties()])


class Match(DictModel):
    date_time = db.DateTimeProperty()
    team1 = db.StringProperty()
    team2 = db.StringProperty()
    venue = db.StringProperty()
    result = db.IntegerProperty()

and in the views:

import json
self.response.out.write(json.dumps([m.to_dict() for m in matches]))