Python w/ Stripe: How do I get valid JSON from a charge response?

Question

I have a python wrapper method called `succeed` that looks like the following: ``` def succeed(handler, data): """Send the given |data| dict as a JSON response in |handler.response|.""" set_headers(handler) handler.response.write(json.dumps(data)) ``` I am trying to pass the result of a Stripe API call to charge a credit card back to another service using this method. Here is the method call, inside of another class: ``` succeed(self, dict(success=True, charge_id=charge.id, response=charge)) ``` When I do so, I get a 'charge is not JSON serializable' error. How can I pass all of the charge ID responses along as JSON with this code? Here is the full response: ``` TypeError: <Charge charge id=ch_103Tsv2kD9PLZlzDG5ce7TE1 at 0x113003b50> JSON: { "amount": 3500, "amount_refunded": 0, "balance_transaction": "xxxxxx", "captured": true, "card": { "address_city": null, "address_country": null, "address_line1": null, "address_line1_check": null, "address_line2": null, "address_state": null, "ad…

Accepted Answer

Use the `.to_dict()` method to turn a Stripe charge object into a python dictionary.

Serializing a dict is an exercise left to the reader.

As an additional fun point, I highly suggest the `dir` function: It lets you see all the possible attributes and methods.

For example:

```
>>> import stripe
>>> dir(stripe.Charge)
['__class__', '__cmp__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattr__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', 'all', 'capture', 'class_name', 'class_url', 'clear', 'close_dispute', 'construct_from', 'copy', 'create', 'fromkeys', 'get', 'has_key', 'instance_url', 'items', 'iteritems', 'iterkeys', 'itervalues', 'keys', 'pop', 'popitem', 'refresh', 'refresh_from', 'refund', 'request', 'retrieve', 'save', 'serialize', 'serialize_metadata', 'setdefault', 'stripe_id', 'to_dict', 'update', 'update_dispute', 'values', 'viewitems', 'viewkeys', 'viewvalues']
>>>
```

From here you can see the `to_dict` method. You can also see the `serialize` method, though it's not clear to me what it does.

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