Sometimes, we want to serialize many to many field with Python Django rest framework.
In this article, we’ll look at how to serialize many to many field with Python Django rest framework.
How to serialize many to many field with Python Django rest framework?
To serialize many to many field with Python Django rest framework, we can add a serializer with many set to True.
For instance, we write
class PostSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
tag = TagSerializer(read_only=True, many=True)
class Meta:
model = Post
fields = ('tag', 'text',)
to create the PostSerializer with the tag field assigned to the TagSerializer instance.
We set many to true to let us serialize many to many fields.
Conclusion
To serialize many to many field with Python Django rest framework, we can add a serializer with many set to True.
