Tastypie serializer to return 400 on bad JSON request

serializers.py

from tastypie.serializers import Serializer
from tastypie.exceptions import BadRequest

class JSONClientErrorSerializer(Serializer):
    """
    Small override to tastypie's internal serializer to provide a client error 
    on a malformed JSON request body
    """
    def from_json(self, *args, **kwargs):
        try:
            return super(JSONClientErrorSerializer, self).from_json(*args, **kwargs)
        except ValueError:
            raise BadRequest("malformed JSON request")







# usage
from tastypie.resources import ModelResource

class MyResource(ModelResource):
    class Meta:
        serializer = JSONClientErrorSerializer()