Improve serialization to JSON.

- Make it recursive.
- Make Param classes serializable.
- Take python native data types into account.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ipalib/parameters.py b/ipalib/parameters.py
index c86db758e..234ceff74 100644
--- a/ipalib/parameters.py
+++ b/ipalib/parameters.py
@@ -852,6 +852,20 @@ class Param(ReadOnly):
                     pass
         return self.default
 
+    def __json__(self):
+        json_dict = {}
+        for (a, k, d) in self.kwargs:
+            if k in (callable, DefaultFrom):
+                continue
+            elif isinstance(getattr(self, a), frozenset):
+                json_dict[a] = [k for k in getattr(self, a, [])]
+            else:
+                json_dict[a] = getattr(self, a, '')
+        json_dict['class'] = self.__class__.__name__
+        json_dict['name'] = self.name
+        json_dict['type'] = self.type.__name__
+        return json_dict
+
 
 class Bool(Param):
     """