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Orca
Orca

Reputation: 2025

Django: Formatting DateTimeField fields in JSON Serializer

I have a model that has a few DateTimeFields and TimeFields, and I am serializing them to JSON using:

json.dumps({'items': list(items.values('id','date_time','time'))},cls=DjangoJSONEncoder)

But the items list shows the date_time field as date_time": "2013-12-25T17:00:00".

How do I impose my own formatting for date_time or any DateTimeField/TimeField/DateField that gets JSON serialized?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2920

Answers (2)

sneawo
sneawo

Reputation: 3631

You can write your own json encoder, look at the DjangoJSONEncoder. Instead of isoformat you can use strftime.

Upvotes: 1

shaktimaan
shaktimaan

Reputation: 12092

You could pre-process the fields in items that need your own formatting using strftime. May be something like:

now = datetime.now()
desired_format = '%Y-%m-%dT%H-%M'
item['date_time']= now.strftime(desired_format)

Upvotes: 2

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