Here is the client side code. It is running insdide a Google Gadgets

  var params = {};
  params[gadgets.io.RequestParameters.CONTENT_TYPE] = gadgets.io.ContentType.JSON;
  var url = "http://invplatformtest.appspot.com/getrecent/";
  gadgets.io.makeRequest(url, response, params);

The response function is:

function response(obj)
  {
  var r = obj.data;
  alert(r['name']);
  }

while on the server end, the python code sending the JSON is:

class GetRecent(webapp.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.response.out.write({'name':'geocities'}) #i know this is where the problem is so how do i encode json in GAE?

which is just supposed to send back a Json encoded string but when i run this, the javascript throws the following error:

r is null
   alert(r['name']);

If i were recieving just TEXT contents and my server send TEXT everything works fine. I only get this problem when am trying to send JSON. Where exactly is the problem? Am i encoding the JSON the wrong way on AppEngine? I tried using the JSON library but it looks as if this is not supported.

Where is the problem exactly? :(