[Django]-Model_to_dict() with a @property field is not being included

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This is my current fix. I am open to another approach that works cleaner with model_to_dict()

@property
def thumbnail_url(self):
    return self.thumbnail.url

def toJSON(self):
    return {
        **model_to_dict(self, fields=['all', 'my', 'fields']),
        **{'thumbnail_url': self.thumbnail_url }
          }
👤kvothe__

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You would want a serializer instead, it might be cleaner instead of model_to_dict()

https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/serializers/

This is what the serializer class would look like:

from rest_framework import serializers

from .people import Person # replace with where your Person model is at.


class PersonSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Person
        fields = [
            'all',
            'your',
            'fields',
            'thumbnail_url'
        ]

And instead of model_to_dict(self, fields=['all', 'my', 'fields']),:

from rest_framework.response import Response
from people.models import Person
from people.serializers import PersonSerializer

... 

instance = Person.objects.all().first()  # Getting first person for the example
if instance:
    data = PersonSerializer(instance).data
return Response(data)
👤Gvistic

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