LocalName, SlotDefinition

[cbizon]

We return a json representation of an element.

So we do something like as_dict(bmt.get_element(element_name)) and then turn that into JSON.

But there are some values of that dict that contain un-jsonable elements (LocalName, SlotDefinition). At the moment, I've just filtered out those element keys, but it would be pretty straightforward to clean that up and convert those entities into dictionaries as well.

Brought up to BMT here: biolink/biolink-model-toolkit#21

Depending on how that is resolved or not, we might take different approaches.

[deepakunni3]

How is as_dict implemented?

The following works for me when I want to serialize nested objects:

import json

def to_dict(obj):
    return json.loads(json.dumps(obj, default=lambda o: o.__dict__))