import json from django.core.serializers.json import DjangoJSONEncoder from django.http import HttpResponse class JsonResponse(HttpResponse): def __init__(self, data, encoder=DjangoJSONEncoder, safe=True, **kwargs): if safe and not isinstance(data, dict): raise TypeError('In order to allow non-dict objects to be ' 'serialized set the safe parameter to False') kwargs.setdefault('content_type', 'application/json') data = json.dumps(data, cls=encoder) super(JsonResponse, self).__init__(content=data, **kwargs)