2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/rest_framework/tests/test_renderers.py b/rest_framework/tests/test_renderers.py
index 2ae8ae18..fb33df2c 100644
--- a/rest_framework/tests/test_renderers.py
+++ b/rest_framework/tests/test_renderers.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from decimal import Decimal
 from django.core.cache import cache
+from django.db import models
 from django.test import TestCase
 from django.utils import unittest
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
@@ -34,6 +35,10 @@ expected_results = [
 ]
 
 
+class DummyTestModel(models.Model):
+    name = models.CharField(max_length=42, default='')
+
+
 class BasicRendererTests(TestCase):
     def test_expected_results(self):
         for value, renderer_cls, expected in expected_results:
@@ -276,6 +281,20 @@ class JSONRendererTests(TestCase):
         ret = JSONRenderer().render(_('test'))
         self.assertEqual(ret, b'"test"')
 
+    def test_render_queryset_values(self):
+        o = DummyTestModel.objects.create(name='dummy')
+        qs = DummyTestModel.objects.values('id', 'name')
+        ret = JSONRenderer().render(qs)
+        data = json.loads(ret.decode('utf-8'))
+        self.assertEquals(data, [{'id': o.id, 'name': o.name}])
+
+    def test_render_queryset_values_list(self):
+        o = DummyTestModel.objects.create(name='dummy')
+        qs = DummyTestModel.objects.values_list('id', 'name')
+        ret = JSONRenderer().render(qs)
+        data = json.loads(ret.decode('utf-8'))
+        self.assertEquals(data, [[o.id, o.name]])
+
     def test_render_dict_abc_obj(self):
         class Dict(MutableMapping):
             def __init__(self):
diff --git a/rest_framework/utils/encoders.py b/rest_framework/utils/encoders.py
index 3ac920c6..e5fa4194 100644
--- a/rest_framework/utils/encoders.py
+++ b/rest_framework/utils/encoders.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 Helper classes for parsers.
 """
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
+from django.db.models.query import QuerySet
 from django.utils.datastructures import SortedDict
 from django.utils.functional import Promise
 from rest_framework.compat import timezone, force_text
@@ -42,6 +43,8 @@ class JSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
             return str(o.total_seconds())
         elif isinstance(o, decimal.Decimal):
             return str(o)
+        elif isinstance(o, QuerySet):
+            return list(o)
         elif hasattr(o, 'tolist'):
             return o.tolist()
         elif hasattr(o, '__getitem__'):