Это очень расстраивает. Сериализация Django жалуется на все, что не является набором запросов, а json.dumps жалуется на объекты из поддержки ORM Django.
>>> from cluster.models import Account
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps(Account.objects.all()[0])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 231, in dumps
return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 201, in encode
chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 264, in iterencode
return _iterencode(o, 0)
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 178, in default
raise TypeError(repr(o) + " is not JSON serializable")
TypeError: <Account: 9de5-2653-000d-81a3 => foo@bar.net> is not JSON serializable
Против
>>> serializers.serialize("json", [clusters])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/serializers/__init__.py", line 91, in serialize
s.serialize(queryset, **options)
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/serializers/base.py", line 41, in serialize
for field in obj._meta.local_fields:
AttributeError: 'QuerySet' object has no attribute '_meta'