[tor-commits] [oonib/master] Add support for serializing lists to json via self.write()

[art at torproject.org]

commit 1e0d3c0d0b20f92fd901163a4f2b41627f9e931e
Author: Arturo Filastò <art at fuffa.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 19 14:03:42 2013 +0200

    Add support for serializing lists to json via self.write()
---
 oonib/handlers.py |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/oonib/handlers.py b/oonib/handlers.py
index 62496ce..515e8c2 100644
--- a/oonib/handlers.py
+++ b/oonib/handlers.py
@@ -1,7 +1,20 @@
+import types
+
+from cyclone import escape
 from cyclone import web
 
 class OONIBHandler(web.RequestHandler):
-    pass
+    def write(self, chunk):
+        """
+        This is a monkey patch to RequestHandler to allow us to serialize also
+        json list objects.
+        """
+        if isinstance(chunk, types.ListType):
+            chunk = escape.json_encode(chunk)
+            web.RequestHandler.write(self, chunk)
+            self.set_header("Content-Type", "application/json")
+        else:
+            web.RequestHandler.write(self, chunk)
 
 class OONIBError(web.HTTPError):
     pass