Use ujson if its available

[joshowen]

If you have it, might as well monkey patch botocore.vendored.requests to use it too, but thats out of scope.

https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/1595

[danielhochman]

This area of the code will pay the biggest dividend in terms of switching out the parser. Also not calling .json() twice in that block would be a good idea.

https://github.com/jlafon/PynamoDB/blob/33eb91a40ee252525871fa1ce0e47cf6b002ad17/pynamodb/connection/base.py#L238

[joshowen]

That is where the monkey patching mentioned above comes in. And json isn't called twice there, the first branch raises.

[danielhochman]

we don't need to patch though, why not call json.loads(request.text)?

[danielhochman]

+1 from me

[joshowen]

@jlafon any thoughts

[joshowen]

Thoughts on merging this in? I'm happy to update the branch. We've been using this in production for a while.

[danielhochman]

@joshowen definitely. let's take advantage of the new global config introduced in 1.6.0 and allow you to globally patch in whatever json parser you want, defaulting to the built-in json.

let me know if you have any questions.