Django rest framework serializing many to many field
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',)
Answer is for DRF 3
This is what I did, let´s suppose a Book can have more than one author and an Author can have more than one book: On Model:
class Author(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=100, default="")
last_name = models.IntegerField(default=0)
class Book(models.Model):
authors = models.ManyToManyField(Author, related_name="book_list", blank=True)
name = models.CharField(max_length=100, default="")
published = models.BooleanField(default=True)
On Serializers:
class BookSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
authors = serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField(queryset=Author.objects.all(), many=True)
class Meta:
model = Book
fields = ('id', 'name', 'published', 'authors')
class AuthorSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
book_list = BookSerializer(many=True, read_only=True)
class Meta:
model = Author
fields = ('id', 'name', 'last_name', 'book_list')