Serialize Python object into JSON format

Sometimes we have to parse/serialize the python object data in JSON for sending the data to the server.
There are may way to do this, one of such way is to serialize the object inside the __repr__ method.

In this post, I am going to explain to you that how to create a JSON type record in python.Below is the example of a python class which implements the JSON serialization.

import json
from collections import OrderedDict

def jsonDefault(OrderedDict):
    return OrderedDict.__dict__
    
class SampleClass(object):
    def __init__(self,*args,**kwargs):pass
    
    def __repr__(self):
        
    return json.dumps(self, default=jsonDefault, indent=4)

    def add_record_as_data(self,_record):
        self.__dict__.update(_record.__dict__)
    def add_record_as_attr(self,_record):
        self.record = _record
        
obj = SampleClass()
obj.name = 'name'
print (obj)
{
 "name": "name"
}

In the above example we have create a   jsonDefault data handler which  used inside the __repr__ method of SampleClass class as : json.dumps(self, default=jsonDefault, indent=4)

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