Flask-JSON
Flask-JSON is a simple extension that adds better JSON support to Flask application.
Features:
- Works on python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3+ and Flask 0.10+.
- More ways to generate JSON responses (comparing to plain Flask).
- Extended JSON encoding support.
Usage
Here is fast example:
from datetime import datetime
from flask import Flask
from flask_json import FlaskJSON, JsonError, json_response, as_json
app = Flask(__name__)
FlaskJSON(app)
@app.route('/get_time')
def get_time():
return json_response(time=datetime.utcnow())
@app.route('/get_time_and_value')
@as_json
def get_time_and_value():
return dict(time=datetime.utcnow(), value=12)
@app.route('/raise_error')
def raise_error():
raise JsonError(description='Example text.', code=123)
if __name__ == '__main__':
app.run()Responses:
GET /get_time HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 60
{
"status": 200,
"time": "2015-04-14T13:17:16.732000"
}GET /raise_error HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.0 400 BAD REQUEST
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 70
{
"code": 123,
"description": "Example text.",
"status": 400
}Documentation
Documentation is available on Read the Docs.
