[Django]-Is there any way to get reversed nested serializers in django rest framework?

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The reason you only get the slugs of the related Countrys is because you use the SlugRelatedField, that will thus list the slugs of the Countrys.

The trick is to make extra serializers that will serializer the related object(s). For example:

class ShallowRegionSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Region
        fields = '__all__'

class CountrySerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    region_id = ShallowRegionSerializer()
    class Meta:
        model = Country
        fields = '__all__'

class CountryRegionSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Country
        fields = '__all__'

class RegionSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
     countries = CountryRegionSerializer(
        many=True,
        read_only=True
     )
    class Meta:
        model = Region
        fields = ['id', 'region_name', 'countries']

Now you can make use of the CountrySerializer and the RegionSerializer. When serializing objects, it will use other serializers, like the ShallowRegionSerializer and CountryRegionSerializer to serialize related object(s).

👤willeM_ Van Onsem

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