serialization.md

Serialization

Object	Response	Attribute
HttpResponse	HTTP-Response	-
None	HTTP-response	-
int	HTTP-response	status code
bool	JSON-response	content
str	HTTP-response	content
str ending with '.html'	HTTP-response	template name
float	HTTP-response	content
dict	JSON-response	content
list	JSON-response	content
Geometry	GeoJSON-response	content
ValuesQuerySet	JSON-response	content
QuerySet	JSON-response	content
RelatedManager	JSON-response	content
Model Instance	JSON-response	content
file	File-response	content
generator	JSON-response	content
iterator	JSON-response	content
Any other object	HTTP-response	content

Examples

Basic

def view(request):
    return 401

def view(request):
    return 401, 'Not authorized'

def view(request):
    return {'foo': 'bar'}

Return model related resources

def view(request):
    return SomeModel.objects.all()

def view(request):
    return SomeModel.objects.get(pk=1)

def view(request):
    return SomeModel.objects.values()

Return a template

def view(request):
    return "template_name.html"

def view(request):
    return "template_name.html", {'foo': 'bar'}

def view(request):
    return 401, "template_name.html", {'foo': 'bar'}

The example above is the only case that view can return a tuple with 3 elements.