Pipelines requires different version of simplejson than mapreduce

[ksookocheff-va]

The simplejson lib should be added as a separate dependency (like what was done with the MapReduce library). The versions of these libs should be the same.

[webmaven]

👍

[eshlox]

I agree. I think that we should just remove simplejson from pipeline library (version 2.1.1), it is included in requirement.txt in the correct version (the same as in mapreduce library). At the moment pipeline is broken because of old simplejson, even the tests are broken:

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ERROR: testE2e (test.util_test.JsonSerializationTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/eshlox/projects/appengine-pipelines/appengine-pipelines/python/test/util_test.py", line 25, in testE2e
    obj, cls=util.JsonEncoder), cls=util.JsonDecoder)
  File "/home/eshlox/projects/appengine-pipelines/appengine-pipelines/python/src/pipeline/simplejson/__init__.py", line 269, in dumps
    use_decimal=use_decimal, **kw).encode(obj)
  File "/home/eshlox/projects/appengine-pipelines/appengine-pipelines/python/src/pipeline/simplejson/encoder.py", line 216, in encode
    chunks = self.iterencode(o, _one_shot=True)
  File "/home/eshlox/projects/appengine-pipelines/appengine-pipelines/python/src/pipeline/simplejson/encoder.py", line 277, in iterencode
    self.skipkeys, self.allow_nan, key_memo, self.use_decimal)
TypeError: Required argument 'namedtuple_as_object' (pos 12) not found

After removing simplejson:

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Ran 3 tests in 0.006s

OK

Tests in my application also passed with this.

Here is the pull request: #11

[someone1]

Is there a reason why it isn't:

try:
  import json as simplejson
except:
  import simplejson

?

For those of us that use the python27 runtime, we can benefit from the speedups afforded by the stdlib json import that has compiled c speedups and remove a dependency.

[tkaitchuck]

Someone1: Good Point. Can you send a merge request?
Is there any other reason to keep this open?