How to serialize SqlAlchemy result to JSON?

Question

Django has some good automatic serialization of ORM models returned from DB to JSON format.

How to serialize SQLAlchemy query result to JSON format?

I tried

Answer 1

You can convert a RowProxy to a dict like this:

 d = dict(row.items())

Then serialize that to JSON ( you will have to specify an encoder for things like datetime values ) It's not that hard if you just want one record ( and not a full hierarchy of related records ).

json.dumps([(dict(row.items())) for row in rs])