Django Serialization for Jquery

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Django serialization via wadofstuff's Django serializers to convert models into Javascript objects using Jquery.  wadofstuff's serializers converts models into a JSON string where each model is a JSON Object with attributes "extras", "fields", "pk", and "model". This script converts the JSON object into something similar to what you find in python ie instance.pk, instance.get_absolute_url, instance.my_related_model.myField

Optional setup:
    $.ajaxSetup({
        cache: false,
        converters: {
            "text django-json": $.parseDjangoJSON
        }
    });

Usage:
$.getDjangoJSON(url, aoData, function(models, status, xhr){
   //Do something with the models(models is an array)
   /*
    [{
        pk: 123124,
        Meta: {
           model: "myapp.mymodel"
        },
        my_related_model: {
            myField: "Hello",
        },
        get_absolute_url: "/my/object/url",
        __unicode__: "something something"
    },
    ...]
   */
});

getDjangoJSON does the same thing as getJSON but with dataType="django-json" which converts the response to a django model

jquery.django.js

(function($){
    $.getDjangoJSON = function(url, data, success){
        return $.ajax({
            url: url,
            dataType: "django-json",
            data: data,
            success: success
        });
    };

    $.parseDjangoJSON = function(data, options){
        var settings = $.extend({
            modelName: "model"
        }, options);
        var data = $.parseJSON(data);
        
        return $.map(data, function(modelData, index){
            return {model: $.toDjangoFormat(modelData)};
        });
    };
    
    $.toDjangoFormat = function(oData){        
        if(!$.isPlainObject(oData) || oData["model"] == null || oData["pk"] == null) return null;
        
        var model = $.extend({
            pk: oData["pk"],
            Meta: {
                model: oData["model"]
            }
        }, oData["fields"], oData["extras"]);
        
        $.each(model, function(attr, data){
            if($.isPlainObject(data) && data["model"] && data["pk"]){
                model[attr] = $.toDjangoFormat(data);
            }
        });
        return model;
    };
})(jQuery);