define GitlabObject.as_dict() to dump object as a dict

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/gitlab/objects.py b/gitlab/objects.py
index 57b8e14..c03e77e 100644
--- a/gitlab/objects.py
+++ b/gitlab/objects.py
@@ -34,9 +34,7 @@ from gitlab.exceptions import *  # noqa
 class jsonEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
     def default(self, obj):
         if isinstance(obj, GitlabObject):
-            return {k: v for k, v in six.iteritems(obj.__dict__)
-                    if (not isinstance(v, BaseManager)
-                        and not k[0] == '_')}
+            return obj.as_dict()
         elif isinstance(obj, gitlab.Gitlab):
             return {'url': obj._url}
         return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)
@@ -488,6 +486,11 @@ class GitlabObject(object):
         """
         return json.dumps(self, cls=jsonEncoder)
 
+    def as_dict(self):
+        """Dump the object as a dict."""
+        return {k: v for k, v in six.iteritems(self.__dict__)
+                if (not isinstance(v, BaseManager) and not k[0] == '_')}
+
 
 class UserKey(GitlabObject):
     _url = '/users/%(user_id)s/keys'