saving and loading objects from file using jsonpickle

Question

I have the following simple methods for writing a python object to a file using jsonpickle:

def json_serialize(obj, filename, use_jsonpickle=True):
    f = open(         


        

Answer 1

Make sure that use_jsonpickle == True in json_load_file(). It seems that you serialize using jsonpickle and load using json.

>>> import jsonpickle
>>> class A(object):
...    def __init__(self, name):
...       self.name = name
... 
>>> js = jsonpickle.encode(A('abc'))
>>> js
'{"py/object": "__main__.A", "name": "abc"}'     # <-- json string
>>> a = jsonpickle.decode(js)
>>> a
<__main__.A object at 0x7f826a87bd90>            # <-- python object
>>> a.name
u'abc'
>>> import json
>>> b = json.loads(js)
>>> b
{u'py/object': u'__main__.A', u'name': u'abc'}    # <-- dictionary

Make sure that object type is available

>>> del A
>>> c = jsonpickle.decode(js)                  # no type available
>>> c
{u'py/object': u'__main__.A', u'name': u'abc'}
>>> type(c)

>>> class A(object):
...    def __init__(self, name):
...        self.name = name
... 
>>> d = jsonpickle.decode(js)                   # type is available
>>> d
<__main__.A object at 0x7f826a87bdd0>
>>> type(d)