Question

I would like to deliver JSON responses with Django to my jQuery based clients.

I could just design a template that instead of markup delivers JSON, but there must be a way to do this easier.

What is the common practice in the Django community?

Answer 1

If using python 2.6 or higher:

import json

Else:

import simplejson as json

Then you can use this in your view code:

foo = {'bar': ['baz', 'etc']}
return HttpResponse(json.dumps(foo), content_type="application/json")