Question

I upgraded an app to django 1.3.1 and the json output changed from curly brackets to square brackets.

Before:

{
  {
    "code": "KENNEDYS08",
    "duration": 23,
    "preview_frame": 1,
  }
}

After:

[
  {
    "code": "KENNEDYS08",
    "duration": 23,
    "preview_frame": 1,
  }
]

The code that returns the json:

output = json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)

Is there an option for replacing the square brackets [] for curly brackets {}?

Answer 1

when you have {} in Json is the same as having a dictionary in python ! which means that in a dictionary you always need a key/value ! so the first one is incorrect! if was like that in previous version of Django, thats why the change for the [] version, which is the right one indeed, and should be followed!