How to return value from Python as JSON?

Question

I sending ajax request from a jQuery file like below, which expects response in JSON.

jQuery.ajax({
    url: \'/Control/getImageDetails?file_id=\'+currentId,
            


        

Answer 1

return json.dumps(return_info)

main problem is

return_info = [record.file_id, record.filename, record.links_to]

because JSON format is generally like

Example:

json.dumps({'file_id': record.file_id, 'filename': record.filename , 'links_to' : record.links_to})

and the message you are going to receive is [object Object] if you use alert(data)

So use alert(data.file_id); if you use the example