Merge pull request #4675 from tiesjan/2.1.x

Document serialization of Decimal in JSONEncoder

Author: davidism

docs/api.rst

@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ for easier customization. By default it handles some extra data types:
 
 -   :class:`datetime.datetime` and :class:`datetime.date` are serialized
     to :rfc:`822` strings. This is the same as the HTTP date format.
+-   :class:`decimal.Decimal` is serialized to a string.
 -   :class:`uuid.UUID` is serialized to a string.
 -   :class:`dataclasses.dataclass` is passed to
     :func:`dataclasses.asdict`.

src/flask/json/__init__.py

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ class JSONEncoder(_json.JSONEncoder):
     -   :class:`datetime.datetime` and :class:`datetime.date` are
         serialized to :rfc:`822` strings. This is the same as the HTTP
         date format.
+    -   :class:`decimal.Decimal` is serialized to a string.
     -   :class:`uuid.UUID` is serialized to a string.
     -   :class:`dataclasses.dataclass` is passed to
         :func:`dataclasses.asdict`.