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3466	'fields' and 'stream' options not working for json serializer	Parand Darugar <tdarugar@…>	Jacob	"I'm attempting to use the 'fields' option with the json serializer without any luck. The same call with the xml serializer works fine:

serializers.serialize(""json"", (Something.objects.get(pk=1), ), fields='myfield' )

breaks with:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""<console>"", line 1, in ?
  File ""C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\core\serializers\__init__.py"", line 55, in serialize s.serialize(queryset, **options)
  File ""C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\core\serializers\base.py"", line 49, in serialize self.end_serialization()
  File ""C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\core\serializers\json.py"", line 19, in end_serialization
  simplejson.dump(self.objects, self.stream, cls=DateTimeAwareJSONEncoder, **self.options)
  File ""C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\utils\simplejson\__init__.py"", line 134, in dump   check_circular=check_circular, allow_nan=allow_nan, indent=indent,
TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'fields'


Trying:
serializers.serialize(""xml"", (Something.objects.get(pk=1), ), fields='myfield' )

works fine however. "		closed	Core (Serialization)	dev		fixed		egmanoj@… ferringb@…	Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0