psycopg2 insert python dictionary as json

Question

I want to insert a python dictionary as a json into my postgresql database (via python and psycopg2).

I have:

thedictionary = {'price money': '$1', 'name': 'Google', 'color': '', 'imgurl': 'http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo225.png', 'charateristics': 'No Description', 'store': 'google'}

cur.execute("INSERT INTO product(store_id, url, price, charecteristics, color, dimensions) VALUES (%d, %s, %s, %d, %s, %s)", (1,  'http://www.google.com', '$20', thedictionary, 'red', '8.5x11'))

And it gives the error message:

cur.execute("INSERT INTO product(store_id, url, price, charecteristics, color, dimensions) VALUES (%d, %s, %s, %d, %s, %s)", (1, 'http://www.google.com', '$20', thedictionary, 'red', '8.5x11')) psycopg2.ProgrammingError: can't adapt type 'dict'

I am not sure how to proceed from here. I cannot find anything on the internet about how to do this exact kind of thing and I am very new to psycopg2.

Answer 1

cur.execute("INSERT INTO product(store_id, url, price, charecteristics, color, dimensions) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)", (1,  'http://www.google.com', '$20', json.dumps(thedictionary), 'red', '8.5x11'))

That will solve your problem. However, you really should be storing keys and values in their own separate columns. To retrieve the dictionary, do:

cur.execute('select charecteristics from product where store_id = 1')
dictionary = json.loads(cur.fetchone()[0])