How do I serialize a many-to-many field into list of something, and return them through rest framework? In my example below, I try to return the post together with a list of tags associated with it.
models.py
class post(models.Model): tag = models.ManyToManyField(Tag) text = models.CharField(max_length=100)
serializers.py
class PostSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): class Meta: model = Post fields = ("text", "tag"??)
views.py
class PostViewSet(viewsets.ReadOnlyModelViewSet): queryset = Post.objects.all() serializer_class = PostSerializer
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Answer
You will need a TagSerializer
, whose class Meta
has model = Tag
. After TagSerializer
is created, modify the PostSerializer
with many=True
for a ManyToManyField
relation:
class PostSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): tag = TagSerializer(read_only=True, many=True) class Meta: model = Post fields = ('tag', 'text',)