I want to retrieve related fields as JSON format using Rest

Question

I want to retrieve Student user fields, but I am having a hard time trying to figure out how to do that I tried reading docs but still confused

Studentserializer

class StudentSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Student
        fields = ['id', 'user', 'name', 'course']

    def create(self, validated_data):
        Student_det = Student.objects.create(**validated_data)
        return Student_det

serializer view

def Student_list(request):
    if request.method == 'GET':
        stud = Student.objects.all()
        serialized = StudentSerializer(stud, many=True)
        print(serialized.data)
        return JsonResponse(serialized.data, safe=False)

Student Model

class Student (models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    course = models.CharField(max_length=255)

Confused with what? What is not being retrieved? Did you mean you want to also display the `user` field as in the User model? — Brian Destura, Jul 02 '21 at 05:56
i wanted to display users info has, i believe what we call nested relationship — Atif Shafi, Jul 02 '21 at 06:01
In that case you need to create another serializer for the `User` model, and use that in the `StudentSerializer` — Brian Destura, Jul 02 '21 at 06:10
Hello @AtifShafi check this post it it similar to your problem https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67523331/how-to-access-forgin-key-value-in-react-from-django-api — Ankit Tiwari, Jul 02 '21 at 07:10

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '21 at 11:13

You can check here. I think the part about nested serializers is what you need.

class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ("id", "first_name", "last_name", ) # and you can add other fields here "email", "date_joined", etc.


class StudentSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    user = UserSerializer()
    
    class Meta:
        model = Student
        fields = ("id", "user", "name", "course", )

This will serialize your Student model like

{
  "id": 1,
  "user": {
    "id": 1,
    "first_name": "Example",
    "last_name": "User"
  }
  "name": "student name",
  "course": "course name"
}

I want to retrieve related fields as JSON format using Rest

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