from django.http import JsonResponse class JSONResponseMixin: """ A mixin that can be used to render a JSON response. """ def render_to_json_response(self, context, **response_kwargs): """ Returns a JSON response, transforming 'context' to make the payload. """ return JsonResponse( self.get_data(context), **response_kwargs ) def get_data(self, context): """ Returns an object that will be serialized as JSON by json.dumps(). """ # Note: This is *EXTREMELY* naive; in reality, you'll need # to do much more complex handling to ensure that arbitrary # objects -- such as Django model instances or querysets # -- can be serialized as JSON. return context