Extremely helpful - thank you.

Brilliant serializer, proven very useful. Thanks a lot

The 'extras' facility has just saved me heaps of time - I had no idea why it wasn't being serialized, and fortunately found your post.

many thanks! tone

I've passed on this link to the guys doing great work at the Washington Times <http://opensource.washingtontimes.com/> as they (Justin) have been working on a terrific django app called django-apibuilder which is a beautiful fit for this serializer.

yes, the wad is right now being used in the development branch of the django-apibuilder

Short question about the possibilities to serialize fields inherited by subclassing a django model. There's basically something like this:

from django.db import models

class BaseModel(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField()
    
class InheritModel(BaseModel):
    content = models.TextField()
    
class OtherModel(BaseModel):
    date = models.DateTimeField()
     

serializing either InheritModel? or OtherModel? does not yield serialization of the name field of BaseModel?, and I couldn't find how to make the link to the related field on a quick glance. Tried both of these options

serialize('json',InheritModel.objects.all(), relations = {'basemodel':{'fields':('name',)}}) 
serialize('json',InheritModel.objects.all(), relations = {'basemodel_ptr':{'fields':('name',)}}) # which is the fields name specified via InheritModel._meta

Any suggestions on how to solve, or would it need to add some more code to the Serializer class?

Cheers

PS: BaseModel? is not an abstract = True class.

Well, looked a bit more into it and figured out, that django.db.models.fields.OneToOneField , which handles inheritance, is set to serialize = False on inheritance which skipped the serialization. I've added another loop which iterates over <obj>._meta.parents and updates self._fields with the values from the parent's object fields. You'll find the the svn diff in the issues. Hope I was able to enhance this awesome serializer. :)

Cheers,

How to i serialize infinite model Tree, like this:

class Item(models.Model):

item_name: models.CharField?(max_length=30) parent_item: models.ForeignKey?(self)

thank you

You have to explicitly specify to depth you want to serialize to. e.g this will serial 3 relations deep.

>>> print serializers.serialize('json', Group.objects.all(), indent=4,
    relations={
        'parent_item':{
            'relations':{
                'parent_item':{
                    'relations':('parent_item',)
                }
            }
        }
    })

Brilliant serializer, using it in a few django apps. What is the best way to use it with the google app engine?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Sorry I haven't tried it with GAE. If you can get it working let me know and pass along any patches.

I am having little trouble when trying to serialize a model created by multi-table model inheritance.

I have tracked down the source to the fact that django marks the link from model to it's parent (OneToOneField?) with serialize=False. This results in not serializing the field by the serializer.

I need to serialize the fields from the parent as well.

Do you have some hint how to prevent Django from marking it up like this?

In the extras documentation you say: These properties may be almost any standard python attribute or method.

But it seems to me (from experimentation) that they can't be any attribute, they have to be a method that takes no arguments.

In addition if this method returns anything other than a string then the object is serialized as a string. I need to serialize a list of dictionaries and this is coming out as a string in the json.

This makes me a sad bunny as I then have to serialize it myself. :-(

Great work on the serializer, thank you very, very much!