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An alternative model serializer for django models

Django's serializer has some limitations which makes it a bit of a pain to use. Basically it will ignore any atributes that have been added to a model object. The code below is for an alternative serializer. This version allows you select what attributes will be serialized on a per object basis. It also allows you to either serialize the data into json or xml. The original json encoder was written by [Wolfram Kriesing](http://wolfram.kriesing.de/blog/) Example Usage: dumper = DataDumper() dumper.selectObjectFields('class_name',[...fields...]) dumper.selectObjectFields('class_name',[...fields...]) dumper.dump(model_instance,'xml') dumper.dump(model_instance,'json') dumper.dump(queryset,'xml')