JSON dump modified to allows python NaN values to be written as null in the JSON data

svernede · svernede · commit 78b7134be5d0 · 2015-06-15T15:06:08.000+08:00
see influxdata#195 Adds a new dependency to module `simplejson` but the same effect is difficult to achieve with base module `json` see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28639953/python-nan-json-encoder
diff --git a/influxdb/influxdb08/client.py b/influxdb/influxdb08/client.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import requests
 import requests.exceptions
 import warnings
+import simplejson
 from sys import version_info
 
 from influxdb import chunked_json
@@ -226,7 +227,7 @@ def request(self, url, method='GET', params=None, data=None,
         params.update(auth)
 
         if data is not None and not isinstance(data, str):
-            data = json.dumps(data)
+            data = simplejson.dumps(data, ignore_nan=True)
 
         # Try to send the request a maximum of three times. (see #103)
         # TODO (aviau): Make this configurable.
