python - UUID('...') is not JSON serializable

Question

I get this error when i try to pass the UUID attribute to url parameter.

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^historia-clinica/(?P<uuid>[Wd-]+)/$', ClinicHistoryDetail.as_view(), name='...'),
]

views.py

class ClinicHistoryDetail(...):
     ...
     my_object = MyModel.objects.create(...)
     ...
     return redirect(reverse('namespace:name', kwargs={'uuid' : my_object.id}))

model.py

class MyModel(models.Model):
    id = models.UUIDField(primary_key=True, default=uuid.uuid4, editable=False)
    ...

Any suggestions?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36588126/uuid-is-not-json-serializable

Answer 1

There is a bug ticket on Django regarding this issue however a custom so called 'complex encoder' by python docs can help you.

import json
from uuid import UUID


class UUIDEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
    def default(self, obj):
        if isinstance(obj, UUID):
            # if the obj is uuid, we simply return the value of uuid
            return obj.hex
        return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)

Now if we did something like this

json.dumps(my_object, cls=UUIDEncoder)

Your uuid field should be encoded.