Typeerror: Object of Type Decimal Is Not Json Serializable

Question

`TypeError: Object of type Decimal is not JSON serializable`

While I am running in postman api i get the above error because sales_qty is decimal , I dont know how to parse decimal in a for loop and return it as json

from flask import Flask, jsonify

import decimal,json

result= [('V_M_001', 'KITE', 'Napkin', 1, 2, 12, 0, Decimal('0'), Decimal('0'), Decimal('0'), Decimal('0')), 
        ('V_M_001', 'KITE', 'Napkin', 2, 4, 34, 5, Decimal('1'), Decimal('4'), Decimal('0'), Decimal('0'))]
        
def fun():

   for i in result:
        data_all.append({
                            "machine_name":i.machine_name,
                            "location":i.location, 
                            "item_name":i.item_name,
                            "row_no":i.row_no,
                            "require_minimum_stk_qty":i.require_minimum_stk_qty,
                            "capacity":i.capacity,
                            "stock_qty":i.stock_qty,
                            "sales_qty":i.sales_qty,
                            "available_qty":i.available_qty,
                            "sales_day_qty":i.sales_day_qty,
                            "sales_week_qty":i.sales_week_qty
        
        })
        
    return jsonify(data_all)

fun()

Output: TypeError: Object of type Decimal is not JSON serializable

Accepted Answer

Use json.dump with cls argument, I believe that when ever the json module dont know how to convert, it will call the default function.

import json
import decimal

class Encoder(json.JSONEncoder):
    def default(self, obj):
        if isinstance(obj, decimal.Decimal): return float(obj)

json.dumps( ... , cls = Encoder)

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Answer 2

import decimal

from flask import current_app as app
from flask import Jsonify
from flask.json import JSONEncoder

class JsonEncoder(JSONEncoder):
    def default(self, obj):
        if isinstance(obj, decimal.Decimal):
            return float(obj)
        return JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)

@app.route('/test_jsonify')
def test_jsonify():
    data = {
        'float': 7.5,
        'decimal': decimal.Decimal(7.5)
    }

    app.json_encoder = JsonEncoder
    return jsonify(data)

(found here Flask Jsonify Custom JsonEncoder | Lua Software Code)

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