How to serialize SqlAlchemy result to JSON?

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Django has some good automatic serialization of ORM models returned from DB to JSON format.

How to serialize SQLAlchemy query result to JSON format?

I tried jsonpickle.encode but it encodes query object itself. I tried json.dumps(items) but it returns

TypeError: <Product("3", "some name", "some desc")> is not JSON serializable

Is it really so hard to serialize SQLAlchemy ORM objects to JSON /XML? Isn"t there any default serializer for it? It"s very common task to serialize ORM query results nowadays.

What I need is just to return JSON or XML data representation of SQLAlchemy query result.

SQLAlchemy objects query result in JSON/XML format is needed to be used in javascript datagird (JQGrid http://www.trirand.com/blog/)