Question

I have a single object I want to serialize:

from django.core import serializers

...
    return HttpResponse(serializers.serialize("json", get_object_or_404(Animal, pk=1)), mimetype="application/json")

This throws a “Not Iterable” error, as it seems that it expects that the second parameter should be iterable. How can I serialize a single object to JSON?

Answer 1

You can always wrap the object you want into a list and take back only the first element. Your second argument can be:

[get_object_or_404(Animal, pk=1),]

and when you deserialize,

my_obj = deserialize()[0]