text: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  
  try:
      import simplejson as json
  except ImportError:
      import json
  
  from ..view_models.model import ViewModel
  
  
  class ApiJsonEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
      '''Encodes ViewModel instances to a json encoder compatible dictionary
      '''
  
      def default(self, obj):
          if isinstance(obj, ViewModel):
              return obj.__dict__
  
          return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)
  