Support for pretty-printing JSON

[andrew-d]

Hey there,

It would be kinda cool if we could pretty-print returned json (by setting the "indent" parameter on json.dumps here). I really like being able to explore APIs that do this - especially from the command line.

One simple method would be to add a settings variable to the flask_restful.representations.json module that you can directly set, e.g. like this:

import flask_restful.representations.json

flask_restful.representations.json.settings['indent'] = 4

If this sounds like something that would be allowed, I'd be happy to send a pull request.

Thanks.

[gbin]

I like it, I would link it to the debug mode.

[andrew-d]

Hm, that's not a bad idea either. I wouldn't mind having a method of manually setting it, though, even in non-debug mode, though. I know that Stripe, for example, will serve pretty-printed JSON to everybody. For example: curl -ik https://api.stripe.com/v1/ gives properly pretty-printed JSON.