models.py: views.py: I would like to return a json response with the content of ProjectManager + the content of the Project associated to that ProjectManager (ForeignKey). According to what I have read in the Django documentation, to do a left join, the best thing to do would be to use select_related. In fact, it works, but when I serialize ProjectManager,
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add a single data to serializer in django
I’m writing an API where the user’s followers are listed.I also want to send the total number of followers in this API.But the totalFollower field keeps repeating.I only want it sent once. Like that: MY serializer Answer You have a couple of options: Use a DRF paginator on your view, which will give a count in the response body: Alternatively
DRF Serializer – Accept field but don’t use it in `create` or `update`
I have a model Message that has a FileField. My API accepts files in Base64 encoding so they can be sent alongside other data. To know a filename and an extension, there is one more field attachment_filename in the serializer that is not a model field. It is used inside Base64Field. I want to be able to validate if there
Django Rest Framework: Access to passed arguments from views in serializers
Before asking this question, I have seen the following links but they don’t help me at all: pass extra arguments to serializer pass request context to serializer from viewset pass context from one serializer to another I have an author model that has foreign key to default django user model: apps/author/models.py Post model has a foreign key to Author. apps/posts/models.py
Django rest framework’s StringRelatedField is throwing KeyError
I have the following model classes. and I have imported these classes as following as they are located in a separate package and this is my serializer class and views is and url has the following I am getting the following error I looked into the DRF example and this seems to be a simple thing to achieve. https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/relations/#api-reference But
Proper usage of “callable default function” in Django REST Framework (DRF)
Question: How can I access the serializer instance or any relevant arguments in the default callable function of DRF field? Scenario: I have a serializer configuration as below, and when I try to serialize the data as, I am gettting error as, Answer Update For DRF>=3.12, use this king of default class pass a class instance instead of function to
Django rest framework serializing many to many field
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 serializers.py views.py Answer You will need a TagSerializer, whose class Meta has model = Tag. After TagSerializer is created, modify the PostSerializer with
How to display all model fields with ModelSerializer?
models.py: serializers.py: So, here I want to use all fields. But I have an error: Field name producer_id is not valid for model Car. How to fix that? Thanks! Answer According to the Django REST Framework’s Documentation on ModelSerializers: By default, all the model fields on the class will be mapped to a corresponding serializer fields. This is different than