This package provides a mixin that allows the user to dynamically select only a subset of fields per resource.
Official version support:
This library is about filtering fields based on individual requests. It is deliberately kept simple and we do not plan to add new features (including support for nested fields). Feel free to contribute improvements, code simplifications and bugfixes though! (See also: #18)
If you need more advanced filtering features, maybe drf-flex-fields could be something for you.
pip install drf-dynamic-fields
Example serializer:
class IdentitySerializer(DynamicFieldsMixin, serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer): class Meta: model = models.Identity fields = ('id', 'url', 'type', 'data')
A regular request returns all fields:
GET /identities
[ { "id": 1, "url": "http://localhost:8000/api/identities/1/", "type": 5, "data": "John Doe" }, ... ]
A query with the fields parameter on the other hand returns only a subset of the fields:
GET /identities/?fields=id,data
[ { "id": 1, "data": "John Doe" }, ... ]
And a query with the omit parameter excludes specified fields.
GET /identities/?omit=data
[ { "id": 1, "url": "http://localhost:8000/api/identities/1/", "type": 5 }, ... ]
You can use both fields and omit in the same request!
GET /identities/?omit=data,fields=data,id
Though why you would want to do something like that is beyond this author.
It also works on single objects!
GET /identities/1/?fields=id,data
{ "id": 1, "data": "John Doe" }
When defining a serializer, use the DynamicFieldsMixin
:
from drf_dynamic_fields import DynamicFieldsMixin class IdentitySerializer(DynamicFieldsMixin, serializers.ModelSerializer): class Meta: model = models.Identity fields = ('id', 'url', 'type', 'data')
The mixin needs access to the request
object. Some DRF classes like the ModelViewSet
set that by default, but if you handle serializers yourself, pass in the request through the context:
events = Event.objects.all() serializer = EventSerializer(events, many=True, context={'request': request})
If the request context does not have access to the request, a warning is emitted:
UserWarning: Context does not have access to request.
First, make sure that you are passing the request to the serializer context (see "Usage" section).
There are some cases (e.g. nested serializers) where you cannot get rid of the warning that way (see issue 27). In that case, you can silence the warning through settings.py
:
DRF_DYNAMIC_FIELDS = { 'SUPPRESS_CONTEXT_WARNING': True, }
To run tests, install Django and DRF and then run runtests.py
:
$ python runtests.py
YAtOff
!X17
and rawbeans
provided improvements on my gist that were incorporated into this library. Thanks!MIT license, see LICENSE
file.
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