How do I convert a Django QuerySet into list of dicts?

Question

How can I convert a Django QuerySet into a list of dicts? I haven\'t found an answer to this so I\'m wondering if I\'m missing some sort of common helper function that every

Answer 1

You do not exactly define what the dictionaries should look like, but most likely you are referring to QuerySet.values(). From the official django documentation:

Returns a ValuesQuerySet — a QuerySet subclass that returns dictionaries when used as an iterable, rather than model-instance objects.

Each of those dictionaries represents an object, with the keys corresponding to the attribute names of model objects.

Answer 2

You need DjangoJSONEncoder and list to make your Queryset to json, ref: Python JSON serialize a Decimal object

import json
from django.core.serializers.json import DjangoJSONEncoder


blog = Blog.objects.all().values()
json.dumps(list(blog), cls=DjangoJSONEncoder)

Answer 3

Simply put list(yourQuerySet).