DjangoJsonEncoder does not encode Queryset

[Abraham González Ramírez]

Django extends the standard JSON encoder from the standard library to enhance its functionality, for example by providing methods to serialize
datetimes and Decimal.

Because QuerySet has a serialize method included in Django, why don't use it in DjangoJSONEncoder?

[Tim Graham]

Can you explain what you're trying to do? As far as I see, QuerySet doesn't have a serialize() method.

[Abraham González Ramírez]

Replying to Tim Graham:

Can you explain what you're trying to do? As far as I see, QuerySet doesn't have a serialize() method.

Django provides us django.core.serializers.serialize function to serialize a QuerySet.

I want to create a wrapper about DjangoJSONEncoder to include QuerySet (DjangoCustomJSONEncoder for example) serialization but it comes to mind if Django gives us a function to serialize a QuerySet why Django does not include it into DjangoJSONEncoder? So I think that there must be a major issue to not include it.

Regards

[Tim Graham]

Can you elaborate on the use case for creating a wrapper around DjangoJSONEncoder to include QuerySet?

[Abraham González Ramírez]

Replying to Tim Graham:

Can you elaborate on the use case for creating a wrapper around DjangoJSONEncoder to include QuerySet?

We are using a Front-end framework that need to receive a JSON for rendering a collection. So we need to include a Queryset into a wrapper of DjangoJSONEncoder to be able to serialize QuerySet

Thanks.

[Tim Graham]

You might consider third-party packages such as ​django REST framework rather than building your own serialization. I think queryset serialization is too nuanced (for example, which fields should be serialized?) to add it to DjangoJSONEncoder which serializes basic data types.