`TwitchObject` is not natively JSON serializable
nklapste opened this issue · comments
Nathan Klapstein commented
Due to using a datetime.datetime
instance in TwitchObject
, TwitchObject
is not natively JSON serializable.
Example:
json.dumps(client.search.channels("example"))
Running this will result in:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ".../twitch-viewer/proto.py", line 17, in <module>
print(json.dumps(client.search.channels("example")))
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 231, in dumps
return _default_encoder.encode(obj)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 199, in encode
chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 257, in iterencode
return _iterencode(o, 0)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/encoder.py", line 180, in default
o.__class__.__name__)
TypeError: Object of type 'datetime' is not JSON serializable
Though this can be addressed on the developers end. I feel that a TwitchObject
should be able to be easily converted into JSON without additional effort.
A easy solution would be to use a str
or int
timestamp (eg: from epoc) for dates in a TwitchObject
instead of using a datetime.datetime
instance.