from datetime import datetime import json from pytz import UTC from django.test import TestCase from track.utils import DateTimeJSONEncoder class TestDateTimeJSONEncoder(TestCase): def test_datetime_encoding(self): a_naive_datetime = datetime(2012, 05, 01, 07, 27, 10, 20000) a_tz_datetime = datetime(2012, 05, 01, 07, 27, 10, 20000, tzinfo=UTC) a_date = a_naive_datetime.date() an_iso_datetime = '2012-05-01T07:27:10.020000+00:00' an_iso_date = '2012-05-01' obj = { 'number': 100, 'string': 'hello', 'object': {'a': 1}, 'a_datetime': a_naive_datetime, 'a_tz_datetime': a_tz_datetime, 'a_date': a_date, } to_json = json.dumps(obj, cls=DateTimeJSONEncoder) from_json = json.loads(to_json) self.assertEqual(from_json['number'], 100) self.assertEqual(from_json['string'], 'hello') self.assertEqual(from_json['object'], {'a': 1}) self.assertEqual(from_json['a_datetime'], an_iso_datetime) self.assertEqual(from_json['a_tz_datetime'], an_iso_datetime) self.assertEqual(from_json['a_date'], an_iso_date)