[Answered ]-Serializer to include User's Followers in Django Rest Framework

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You can see that instead using to related name, you need to use related_to, which is pointing to an actual user object (to is pointing to Relationship object instead). That’s why you get this exception.

With a little help of the following tip: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24216503/1566605,
you can display nested users:

class RecursiveField(serializers.Serializer):
    def to_native(self, value):
        return self.parent.to_native(value)

class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    related_to = RecursiveField(many=True)

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('id', 'username', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'related_to')
        read_only_field = 'username'
👤mariodev

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