How do I go about returning json data from a bottle request handler. I see a dict2json method in the bottle src but I am not sure how to use it.
What is in the documentation:
@route('/spam')
def spam():
return {'status':'online', 'servertime':time.time()}
Gives me this when I bring up the page:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>statusservertime</body>
</html>
Simply return a dict. Bottle handles the conversion to JSON for you.
Even dictionaries are allowed. They are converted to json and returned with Content-Type header set to application/json. To disable this feature (and pass dicts to your middleware) you can set bottle.default_app().autojson to False.
@route('/api/status')
def api_status():
return {'status':'online', 'servertime':time.time()}
Taken from the documentation.
return {'status':'online', 'servertime':time.time()} works perfectly well for me. Have you imported time?
This works:
import time
from bottle import route, run
@route('/')
def index():
return {'status':'online', 'servertime':time.time()}
run(host='localhost', port=8080)
For some reason, bottle's auto-json feature doesn't work for me. If it doesn't work for you either, you can use this decorator:
def json_result(f):
def g(*a, **k):
return json.dumps(f(*a, **k))
return g
Also handy:
def mime(mime_type):
def decorator(f):
def g(*a, **k):
response.content_type = mime_type
return f(*a, **k)
return g
return decorator