now doing dates and foreign keyed objects corretly

core/utils.py

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ import resource
 import socket
 import string
 import subprocess
-from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from datetime import datetime, timezone, date
-from decimal import getcontext
+from decimal import getcontext, Decimal
 from pathlib import Path
 
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ class WriteAndCommitError(Exception):
 class CustomJSONEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
     def default(self, obj):
         # Convert datetime objects to ISO 8601 string format
-        if isinstance(obj, datetime):
+        if isinstance(obj, (datetime, date)):
             return obj.isoformat()
         # Convert Decimal objects to string
         if isinstance(obj, Decimal):

core/views/logbooks.py

@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ import json
 import re
 
 from datetime import datetime
-from decimal import Decimal
-
 
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
@@ -390,7 +388,7 @@ def logbook_entries_export(request, year):
         # print(f"{e.pk:03} {e}")
     editor = get_editor(request)
 
-    write_entries(entries, year, editor)
+    write_entries(entries[:6], year, editor)
     return redirect(f"/logreport/{year}")
 
 
@@ -402,12 +400,11 @@ def write_entries(entries, year, editor):
     year    - the year of the expo. 
     """
         
-    def write_json_file():
+    def write_json_file(jsondict):
-        # uses filepath, jsondict from context
+        # uses filepath, from context
-
         try:
             with open(filepath, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as json_f:
-                json.dump(jsondict, json_f, indent=1)
+                json.dump(jsondict, json_f, indent=1, cls=CustomJSONEncoder,)
         except PermissionError as e:
             raise PermissionError(
                 f"CANNOT  save this file.\nPERMISSIONS incorrectly set on server for this file {filepath}. Ask a nerd to fix this: {e}"
@@ -422,24 +419,39 @@ def write_entries(entries, year, editor):
         
         author_link = PersonLogEntry.objects.select_related('personexpedition').get(
             logbook_entry=le, 
-            is_logbook_entry_author=True # Adjust filter based on your logic
+            is_logbook_entry_author=True 
         )
         author = author_link.personexpedition.person
-        print(author)
 
-        jsondict = serialize("json", [le], fields=('slug', 'date', 'expedition', 'title', 'cave', 'place', 'other_people', 'time_underground', 'text'))
+        participants_links = PersonLogEntry.objects.select_related('personexpedition').filter(
-        return jsondict
+            logbook_entry=le, 
+            is_logbook_entry_author=False 
+        )
+        participants = []
+        for pl in participants_links:
+            participants.append(pl.personexpedition.person)
+            
+        author_data = model_to_dict(author, fields=['id', 'slug'])
+        
+        participants_data = []
+        for p in participants:
+            participants_data.append(model_to_dict(p, fields=['id', 'slug']))
+
+        entrydict = model_to_dict(le, fields=('slug', 'date', 'expedition', 'title', 'cave', 'place', 'other_people', 'time_underground', 'text'))
+        entrydict['author'] = author_data
+        entrydict['participants_data'] = participants_data
+        return entrydict
         
     dirpath = settings.EXPOWEB / "years" / year / LOGBOOK_ENTRIES
             
-    for le in entries[:4]:        
+    for le in entries:        
         filename = f"{le.slug}-{le.pk:03}.json"
         filepath = dirpath / filename
         # description =  f" {le.slug} :: {le.date} - {le.title}"
         ensure_dir_exists(filepath)
 
-        jsondict = serialize_logentry(le)
+        entrydict = serialize_logentry(le)
-        write_json_file()    
+        write_json_file(entrydict)    
         git_add(filename, dirpath)
        
     commit_msg = f"Exporting {len(entries)} logbook entries as individual files."
@@ -448,20 +460,7 @@ def write_entries(entries, year, editor):
     
 
 def export_entry_with_author_details(request, entry_id):
-    try:
-        # 1. Get the LogbookEntry instance
-        entry = LogbookEntry.objects.get(pk=entry_id)
  
-        # 2. Get the related PersonLogEntry and Person (Author)
-        # Use .select_related() for efficiency
-        author_link = PersonLogEntry.objects.select_related('person').get(
-            entry=entry, 
-            is_author=True # Adjust filter based on your logic
-        )
-        author = author_link.person
-
-    except (LogbookEntry.DoesNotExist, PersonLogEntry.DoesNotExist):
-        return HttpResponse(f'Entry or Author not found for ID {entry_id}', status=404)
 
     # 3. Manually create the nested dictionary structure
     # Use model_to_dict for easy extraction of the simple fields