Merge branch 'issue-1231-jsonencoder' of git://github.com/mbox/django-rest-framework into mbox-issue-1231-jsonencoder

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/utils/encoders.py b/rest_framework/utils/encoders.py
index 35ad206b..22b1ab3d 100644
--- a/rest_framework/utils/encoders.py
+++ b/rest_framework/utils/encoders.py
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ class JSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
             return str(o)
         elif hasattr(o, 'tolist'):
             return o.tolist()
+        elif hasattr(o, '__getitem__'):
+            try:
+                return dict(o)
+            except KeyError:
+                # Couldn't convert to a dict, fall through
+                pass
         elif hasattr(o, '__iter__'):
             return [i for i in o]
         return super(JSONEncoder, self).default(o)