Exclude a field from django rest framework serializer

Question

In the following serializer, I have a nested serializer [ContainerSerializer] field and I want to exclude a field from (container)ContainerSerializer but I don't want any change in ContainerSerializer. How can I do that?

class BLcontainerMergedSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    container = ContainerSerializer()
    class Meta:
        model = BLcontainer

Answer 1

Create another serializer say BLContainerSerializer and exclude fields there. Then use this in your BLcontainerMergedSerializer. Hope this helps.

class BLContainerSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):     class Meta:         model = Container         exclude = ('field1', )   class BLcontainerMergedSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):     container = BLContainerSerializer()      class Meta:         model = BLcontainer 

Answer 2

There is a fields meta property:

class BLcontainerMergedSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    container = ContainerSerializer()
    class Meta:
        model = BLcontainer
        fields = ('field1', 'field2')

Reference: Django REST docs