Merge a13cdbeb25 into a251b93792

docs/api-guide/settings.md

@@ -362,6 +362,16 @@ The default style is to return minified responses, in line with [Heroku's API de
 
 Default: `True`
 
+#### SORTED_JSON
+
+When set to `True`, keys in JSON responses will be sorted. For example:
+
+    {"email": "jane@example", "is_admin": false, "username": "jane"}
+
+When set to `False`, the JSON responses are arbitrarily ordered.
+
+Default: `False`
+
 #### COERCE_DECIMAL_TO_STRING
 
 When returning decimal objects in API representations that do not support a native decimal type, it is normally best to return the value as a string. This avoids the loss of precision that occurs with binary floating point implementations.

rest_framework/renderers.py

@@ -100,9 +100,12 @@ class JSONRenderer(BaseRenderer):
             separators = INDENT_SEPARATORS
 
         ret = json.dumps(
-            data, cls=self.encoder_class,
-            indent=indent, ensure_ascii=self.ensure_ascii,
-            separators=separators
+            data,
+            cls=self.encoder_class,
+            indent=indent,
+            ensure_ascii=self.ensure_ascii,
+            separators=separators,
+            sort_keys=api_settings.SORTED_JSON,
         )
 
         # On python 2.x json.dumps() returns bytestrings if ensure_ascii=True,

rest_framework/settings.py

@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ DEFAULTS = {
     # Encoding
     'UNICODE_JSON': True,
     'COMPACT_JSON': True,
+    'SORTED_JSON': False,
     'COERCE_DECIMAL_TO_STRING': True,
     'UPLOADED_FILES_USE_URL': True,