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diff --git a/docs/narr/renderers.rst b/docs/narr/renderers.rst index 76035cbdf..47182c09e 100644 --- a/docs/narr/renderers.rst +++ b/docs/narr/renderers.rst @@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ using the API of the ``request.response`` attribute. See .. index:: pair: renderer; JSON -``json``: JSON Renderer -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +JSON Renderer +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The ``json`` renderer renders view callable results to :term:`JSON`. It passes the return value through the ``json.dumps`` standard library function, @@ -207,7 +207,10 @@ representing the JSON serialization of the return value: '{"content": "Hello!"}' The return value needn't be a dictionary, but the return value must contain -values serializable by :func:`json.dumps`. +values serializable by :func:`json.dumps`. Extra arguments can be passed +to :func:`json.dumps` by overriding the default renderer. See +:class:`pyramid.renderers.JSON` and +:ref:`_adding_and_overriding_renderers` for more information. 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 @@ -221,7 +224,6 @@ You can configure a view to use the JSON renderer by naming ``json`` as the context='myproject.resources.Hello', renderer='json') - Views which use the JSON renderer can vary non-body response attributes by using the api of the ``request.response`` attribute. See :ref:`request_response_attr`. |