Flask: Peewee model_to_dict helper not working
Question: i'm developing a little app for a University project and i need to json encode
the result of a query to pass it to a js library, i've read elsewhere that i
can use model_to_dict to accomplish that, but i'm getting this error

> AttributeError: 'SelectQuery' object has no attribute '_meta'

and i don't know why or what to do, does anyone know how to solve that?

I'm using python 2.7 and the last version of peewee

    
    
    @app.route('/ormt')
    def orm():
        doitch = Player.select().join(Nationality).where(Nationality.nation % 'Germany')
        return model_to_dict(doitch)
    


Answer: This is because `doitch` is a `SelectQuery` instance it is not model, you have
to call [`get()`](http://docs.peewee-
orm.com/en/latest/peewee/api.html#SelectQuery.get)

    
    
    from flask import jsonify
    
    @app.route('/ormt')
    def orm():
        doitch = Player.select().join(Nationality).where(Nationality.nation % 'Germany')
        return jsonify(model_to_dict(doitch.get()))
    

Also you could use [dicts](http://docs.peewee-
orm.com/en/latest/peewee/querying.html#retrieving-raw-tuples-dictionaries)
method to get data as dict. This omits creation a whole model stuff.

    
    
    from flask import jsonify
    
    @app.route('/ormt')
    def orm():
        doitch = Player.select().join(Nationality).where(Nationality.nation % 'Germany')
        return jsonify(doitch.dicts().get())
    

**edit**

As @lord63 pointed out, you cannot simply return dict, it must be a Flask
response so convert it to jsonify.

**edit 2**

    
    
    @app.route('/ormt')
    def orm():
        doitch = Player.select().join(Nationality).where(Nationality.nation % 'Germany')
        # another query
        sth = Something.select()
        return jsonify({
            'doitch': doitch.dicts().get(),
            'something': sth_query.dicts().get()
        })
    

