Object of type date is not JSON Serializable

Question

I have a table in MySQL with name, period, indicator, value as the column names. Period stores date. I am trying to get the object from django using the following code

def get_table(request):

    tab = list(table.objects.values('name', 'period' , 'indicator', 'value'))
    json_data = json.dumps(tab)

    return HttpResponse(json_data)

I receive an error saying date is not JSON Serializable. How do I convert it to string before getting the object? Can anyone help me with the code?

Answer 1

did you try django serialization :

from django.core import serializers

fields = ['name', 'period' , 'indicator', 'value']
qs = table.objects.all()
json_data = serializers.serialize('json', qs, fields=fields)