From 263281d71d0425d7bb9b4ebbdf1811ef637ee60a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Malcolm Box
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:09:48 +0000
Subject: Fix issue #1231: JSONEncoder doesn't handle dict-like objects

Check for __getitem__ and then attempt to convert to a dict.
The check for __getitem__ is there as there's no universal way to
check if an object is a mapping type, but this is a likely proxy
---
 rest_framework/utils/encoders.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'rest_framework/utils')

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)
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