Limit choices to foreignkey in django rest framework

You can create a custom foreign key field and define get_queryset() method there to filter related objects to only those of your user. The current user can be retrieved from the request in the context:

class UserPhotoForeignKey(serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField):
    def get_queryset(self):
        return Image.objects.filter(owner=self.context['request'].user)

class NodeSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    photo = UserPhotoForeignKey()
    class Meta:
        model = Node
        fields = ('content', 'photo', 'owner')

This example is using Django REST Framework version 3.

I would deal with this by overriding get_serializer_class to dynamically return a serializer class at runtime, setting the choices option on the field there:

def get_serializer_class(self, ...):
    user = self.request.user
    owner_choices = ...  # However you want to restrict the choices

    class ImageSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
        owner = serializers.Field('owner.username', choices=owner_choices)

        class Meta:
            model = Image
            fields = ('file', 'owner')

    return ImageSerializer

class CustomForeignKey(serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField):
    def get_queryset(self):
        return Table.objects.filter(is_active=True)

class Serializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    (...)
   table= CustomForeignKey()
   class Meta:
   (...)

even more easy is :

class Serializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    (...)
    table = serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField(queryset=Table.objects.filter(is_active=True)) 
    class Meta:
    (...)