以JSON序列化base64编码的数据

Question

我正在编写脚本以自动生成演示数据，并且需要在JSON中序列化一些数据。该数据的一部分是图像，因此我在base64中对其进行了编码，但是当我尝试运行脚本时，我得到了：

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "lazyAutomationScript.py", line 113, in <module>
    json.dump(out_dict, outfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/json/__init__.py", line 178, in dump
    for chunk in iterable:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/json/encoder.py", line 422, in _iterencode
    yield from _iterencode_dict(o, _current_indent_level)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/json/encoder.py", line 396, in _iterencode_dict
    yield from chunks
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/json/encoder.py", line 396, in _iterencode_dict
    yield from chunks
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/json/encoder.py", line 429, in _iterencode
    o = _default(o)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/json/encoder.py", line 173, in default
    raise TypeError(repr(o) + " is not JSON serializable")
  TypeError: b'iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAADWcAABRACAYAAABf7ZytAAAABGdB...
     ...
   BF2jhLaJNmRwAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC' is not JSON serializable

据我所知，无论使用base64编码的任何内容（在这种情况下，都是PNG图像）都只是一个字符串，因此它应该对序列化造成问题。我想念什么？

Answer 1

您必须注意数据类型。

如果读取二进制图像，则会得到字节。如果将这些字节编码为base64，则将再次获得…字节！（请参阅b64encode上的文档）

json无法处理原始字节，这就是您收到错误的原因。

我刚刚写了一些带有注释的示例，希望对您有所帮助：

from base64 import b64encode
from json import dumps

ENCODING = 'utf-8'
IMAGE_NAME = 'spam.jpg'
JSON_NAME = 'output.json'

# first: reading the binary stuff
# note the 'rb' flag
# result: bytes
with open(IMAGE_NAME, 'rb') as open_file:
    byte_content = open_file.read()

# second: base64 encode read data
# result: bytes (again)
base64_bytes = b64encode(byte_content)

# third: decode these bytes to text
# result: string (in utf-8)
base64_string = base64_bytes.decode(ENCODING)

# optional: doing stuff with the data
# result here: some dict
raw_data = {IMAGE_NAME: base64_string}

# now: encoding the data to json
# result: string
json_data = dumps(raw_data, indent=2)

# finally: writing the json string to disk
# note the 'w' flag, no 'b' needed as we deal with text here
with open(JSON_NAME, 'w') as another_open_file:
    another_open_file.write(json_data)