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Saturnix
Saturnix

Reputation: 10554

Prevent Django's JsonResponse to serialize my string

I have a JSON string that I compute from a Pandas dataframe

aggr.aggregated.to_json(orient='values')

I cannot directly provide aggr.aggregated to a standard Python JSON serializer because it would not follow the orient='values' rules and would do so differently.

I want to serve my own JSON string as a response from a Django view:

return JsonResponse(aggr.aggregated.to_json(orient='values'))

However, in the code above, Django tried to serialize my JSON string.

How can I use JsonResponse exclusively to set the Content-Type header to application/json but not to serialize a string that is already serialized?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 152

Answers (1)

solarissmoke
solarissmoke

Reputation: 31514

There is no benefit in using JsonResponse if you don't want it to encode the JSON for you.

Just use HttpResponse and set the content-type header yourself:

return HttpResponse(
    aggr.aggregated.to_json(orient='values'), 
    content_type='application/json' 
)

Upvotes: 2

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