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diff --git a/docs/narr/renderers.rst b/docs/narr/renderers.rst index 47182c09e..52e97d091 100644 --- a/docs/narr/renderers.rst +++ b/docs/narr/renderers.rst @@ -212,6 +212,13 @@ to :func:`json.dumps` by overriding the default renderer. See :class:`pyramid.renderers.JSON` and :ref:`_adding_and_overriding_renderers` for more information. +Custom objects can be easily serialized by defining a :func:`__json__` method +on the object. This method should return values serializable by +:func:`json_dumps`. By defining this method and using a :term:`JSON` +renderer the :class:`pyramid.renderers.ObjectJSONEncoder` class will be used +for encoding your object. If you later define your own custom encoder it will +override :class:`pyramid.renderers.ObjectJSONEncoder`. + You can configure a view to use the JSON renderer by naming ``json`` as the ``renderer`` argument of a view configuration, e.g. by using :meth:`~pyramid.config.Configurator.add_view`: |