- Support ujson if installed.

- If installed but no wish to use it set HUG_USE_UJSON=0 environmental variable

hug/api.py

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 """
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
-import json
 import sys
 from collections import OrderedDict, namedtuple
 from distutils.util import strtobool
@@ -31,13 +30,13 @@
 from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
 
 import falcon
-from falcon import HTTP_METHODS
-
 import hug.defaults
 import hug.output_format
+from falcon import HTTP_METHODS
 from hug import introspect
 from hug._async import asyncio, ensure_future
 from hug._version import current
+from hug.json_module import json
 
 
 INTRO = """

hug/input_format.py

@@ -21,14 +21,13 @@
 """
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
-import json as json_converter
 import re
 from cgi import parse_multipart
 from urllib.parse import parse_qs as urlencoded_converter
 
 from falcon.util.uri import parse_query_string
-
 from hug.format import content_type, underscore
+from hug.json_module import json as json_converter
 
 
 @content_type('text/plain')

hug/json_module.py

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import os
+
+HUG_USE_UJSON = bool(os.environ.get('HUG_USE_UJSON', 1))
+try:
+    if HUG_USE_UJSON:
+        import ujson as json
+    else:
+        import json
+except ImportError:
+    import json

hug/output_format.py

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
 import base64
-import json as json_converter
 import mimetypes
 import os
 import re
@@ -35,9 +34,9 @@
 
 import falcon
 from falcon import HTTP_NOT_FOUND
-
 from hug import introspect
 from hug.format import camelcase, content_type
+from hug.json_module import json as json_converter
 
 IMAGE_TYPES = ('png', 'jpg', 'bmp', 'eps', 'gif', 'im', 'jpeg', 'msp', 'pcx', 'ppm', 'spider', 'tiff', 'webp', 'xbm',
                'cur', 'dcx', 'fli', 'flc', 'gbr', 'gd', 'ico', 'icns', 'imt', 'iptc', 'naa', 'mcidas', 'mpo', 'pcd',

hug/test.py

@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 """
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
-import json
 import sys
 from functools import partial
 from io import BytesIO
@@ -30,9 +29,9 @@
 
 from falcon import HTTP_METHODS
 from falcon.testing import StartResponseMock, create_environ
-
 from hug import output_format
 from hug.api import API
+from hug.json_module import json
 
 
 def call(method, api_or_module, url, body='', headers=None, params=None, query_string='', scheme='http', **kwargs):

hug/types.py

@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@
 
 import uuid as native_uuid
 from decimal import Decimal
-from json import loads as load_json
 
 import hug._empty as empty
 from hug import introspect
 from hug.exceptions import InvalidTypeData
+from hug.json_module import json as json_converter
 
 
 class Type(object):
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ class JSON(Type):
     def __call__(self, value):
         if type(value) in (str, bytes):
             try:
-                return load_json(value)
+                return json_converter.loads(value)
             except Exception:
                 raise ValueError('Incorrectly formatted JSON provided')
         else:

requirements/development.txt

@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ tox==2.7.0
 wheel==0.29.0
 pytest-xdist==1.14.0
 marshmallow==2.6.0
+ujson==1.35