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I got events that happen at locations:
class Event(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
date_published = models.DateTimeField('published date',default=datetime.now, blank=True)
date_start = models.DateTimeField('start date')
date_end = models.DateTimeField('end date')
def __unicode__(self):
return self.title
description = models.TextField()
price = models.IntegerField(null=True, blank=True)
tags = TaggableManager()
location = models.ForeignKey(Location, blank=False)
class Location(models.Model):
location_title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
location_date_published = models.DateTimeField('published date',default=datetime.now, blank=True)
location_latitude = models.CharField(max_length=200)
location_longitude = models.CharField(max_length=200)
location_address = models.CharField(max_length=200)
location_city = models.CharField(max_length=200)
location_zipcode = models.CharField(max_length=200)
location_state = models.CharField(max_length=200)
location_country = models.CharField(max_length=200)
location_description = models.TextField()
def __unicode__(self):
return u'%s' % (self.location_title)
I can get the results of all via:
class EventSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
id = serializers.Field()
class Meta:
model = Event
depth = 2
fields = ('url','id','title','date_start','date_end','description', 'price', 'location')
Which outputs:
{
"url": "http://localhost:8000/api/event/3/",
"id": 3,
"title": "Testing",
"date_start": "2013-03-10T20:19:00Z",
"date_end": "2013-03-10T20:19:00Z",
"description": "fgdgdfg",
"price": 10,
"location": {
"id": 2,
"location_title": "Mighty",
"location_date_published": "2013-03-10T20:16:00Z",
"location_latitude": "37.767475",
"location_longitude": "-122.406878",
"location_address": "119 Utah St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA",
"location_city": "San Francisco",
"location_zipcode": "94103",
"location_state": "California",
"location_country": "United States",
"location_description": "Some place"
}
},
However, I don't want it to grab all fields, as I don't need all of them. How can I define what fields should be retrieved from my nested object? Thanks!
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DRF provides a Serializer class that gives you a powerful, generic way to control the output of your responses, as well as a ModelSerializer class that provides a useful shortcut for creating serializers that deal with model instances and querysets.
SlugRelatedField may be used to represent the target of the relationship using a field on the target. For example, the following serializer: class AlbumSerializer(serializers. ModelSerializer): tracks = serializers.
In function based views we can pass extra context to serializer with "context" parameter with a dictionary. To access the extra context data inside the serializer we can simply access it with "self. context". From example, to get "exclude_email_list" we just used code 'exclude_email_list = self.
Serializers can be nested, so do something like this...
class LocationSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = Location
fields = (...)
class EventSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
id = serializers.Field()
location = LocationSerializer()
class Meta:
model = Event
fields = ('url','id','title','date_start','date_end','description', 'price', 'location')
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