Specify order of output json

[CaptainDriftwood]

For a dataclass, is there a way to specify the order of the attributes when serializing the object?

[wyfo]

By default, apischema orders the fields according to their position in class declaration.
Also, [serialized methods/property] are inserted after, in order to potentially overwrite normal fields, whereas aggregate fields like properties or flattened are inserted before, in order to be overwritten.

But there is no API specifically provided to modify order the fields. On the other hand, it can currently be done using object serialization.

Could this solution fit your use case?

By the way, when #181 will be released (I know, I'm very late), it will also be possible to reorder fields by using apischema.objects.set_object_fields.

Of course, reordering fields for serialization will also affect ordering of the associated JSON schema (but you will surely agree that it's a good thing).

I know these solutions are more workarounds, as they were not implemented for this purpose, and I'm open to improvements. I'm for example thinking about adding an "order" metadata like .NET's one, but aggregate fields make things complicated…
Feel free to add your suggestions.

[wyfo]

Field ordering has been addressed in #192