Django serializer for one object

How about just massaging what you get back from serializers.serialize? It is not that hard to trim off the square brackets from the front and back of the result.

job = Job.objects.get(pk=1)
array_result = serializers.serialize('json', [job], ensure_ascii=False)
just_object_result = array_result[1:-1]

Not a fancy answer but it will give you just the object in json notation.

Method-1

Use Django Serializer with python format

from django.core import serializers

j = Job.objects.get(pk=1)
response = serializers.serialize('python', [j], ensure_ascii=False)

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Method-2

use json format while serializing and loads the string response

import json
from django.core import serializers

j = Job.objects.get(pk=1)
json_str_response = serializers.serialize('json', [j], ensure_ascii=False)
response = json.loads(json_str_response)[0]

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Method-3

Use Django REST Framework's Serializer class define a serializer class and serialize the instance as

from rest_framework import serializers


class JobSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Job
        fields = '__all__'


j = Job.objects.get(pk=1)
response = JobSerializer(instance=j).data

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Reference
1. Serializer Django model object