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 use introspection of SqlAlchemy as this :

mysql = SQLAlchemy()
from sqlalchemy import inspect

class Contacts(mysql.Model):  
    __tablename__ = 'CONTACTS'
    id = mysql.Column(mysql.Integer, primary_key=True)
    first_name = mysql.Column(mysql.String(128), nullable=False)
    last_name = mysql.Column(mysql.String(128), nullable=False)
    phone = mysql.Column(mysql.String(128), nullable=False)
    email = mysql.Column(mysql.String(128), nullable=False)
    street = mysql.Column(mysql.String(128), nullable=False)
    zip_code = mysql.Column(mysql.String(128), nullable=False)
    city = mysql.Column(mysql.String(128), nullable=False)
    def toDict(self):
        return { c.key: getattr(self, c.key) for c in inspect(self).mapper.column_attrs }

@app.route('/contacts',methods=['GET'])
def getContacts():
    contacts = Contacts.query.all()
    contactsArr = []
    for contact in contacts:
        contactsArr.append(contact.toDict()) 
    return jsonify(contactsArr)

@app.route('/contacts/',methods=['GET'])
def getContact(id):
    contact = Contacts.query.get(id)
    return jsonify(contact.toDict())

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