from __future__ import absolute_import from flask import make_response, current_app from flask_restful.utils import PY3 from json import dumps def output_json(data, code, headers=None): """Makes a Flask response with a JSON encoded body""" settings = current_app.config.get('RESTFUL_JSON', {}) # If we're in debug mode, and the indent is not set, we set it to a # reasonable value here. Note that this won't override any existing value # that was set. We also set the "sort_keys" value. if current_app.debug: settings.setdefault('indent', 4) settings.setdefault('sort_keys', not PY3) # always end the json dumps with a new line # see https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/pull/1262 dumped = dumps(data, **settings) + "\n" resp = make_response(dumped, code) resp.headers.extend(headers or {}) return resp