A collection of useful tools to DRY up your Django Rest Framework serializers
Full documentation: http://django-rest-framework-serializer-extensions.readthedocs.io/
Serializer extensions reduces the need for very similar serializers, by allowing the fields to be defined on a per-view/request basis. Fields can be whitelisted, blacklisted, and child serializers can be optionally expanded. Whatever fields you choose to use, your querysets can be optimized automatically to make the fewest database calls possible.
Support for HashIds is also provided. If you're currently exposing your internal IDs over a public API, we suggest you consider switching to HashIds instead.
⭐ Lovingly open-sourced by Housekeep.
Tested against:
Install using pip
:
$ pip install djangorestframework-serializer-extensions
And add rest_framework_serializer_extensions
to your INSTALLED_APPS
setting:
INSTALLED_APPS = ( ... 'rest_framework_serializer_extensions' )
To activate the serializer extensions, add the SerializerExtensionsMixin
to your serializers:
# serializers.py from rest_framework.serializers import ModelSerializer from rest_framework_serializer_extensions.serializers import SerializerExtensionsMixin ... class OwnerSerializer(SerializerExtensionsMixin, ModelSerializer): class Meta: model = models.Owner fields = ('id', 'name') expandable_fields = dict( organization=OrganizationSerializer, cars=dict( serializer=SkuSerializer, many=True ) )
And add the SerializerExtensionsAPIViewMixin
to your API views:
from rest_framework.generics import RetrieveAPIView from rest_framework_serializer_extensions.views import SerializerExtensionsAPIViewMixin class RetriveOwnerAPIView(SerializerExtensionsAPIViewMixin, RetrieveAPIView): ...
Serializer extensions allows your API to re-use your serializers to fit a variety of use cases. The examples shown below use query parameters to modify the response, but individual views can interact with your serializers in much the same way.
>>> GET /owner/x4F/ { "id": 'x4F', "name": 'tyrell', "organization_id": 'kgD' }
>>> GET /owner/x4F/?expand=organization { "id": 'x4F', "name": 'tyrell', "organization_id": 'kgD', "organization": { "id": "kgD", "name": "E Corp" } }
>>> GET /owner/x4F/?expand=cars__model&exclude=name { "id": 'x4F', "organization_id": 'kgD', "cars": [ { "id": "wf9", "variant": "P100D", "model": { "id": "ncX", "name": "Model S" } } ] }
>>> GET /owner/x4F/?expand=cars&only=cars__variant { "cars": [ { "variant": "P100D", } ] }
Install testing requirements.
Run with pytest
You can also use the excellent tox testing tool to run the tests against all supported versions of Python and Django. Install tox globally, and then simply run:
To build the documentation, you’ll need to install mkdocs
. These are included in the development extras:
To preview the documentation:
$ mkdocs serve Running at: http://127.0.0.1:8000/
To build the documentation:
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