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Django 5 By Example

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805125457
Length 820 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Preface 1. Building a Blog Application 2. Enhancing Your Blog and Adding Social Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Implementing Social Authentication 6. Sharing Content on Your Website 7. Tracking User Actions 8. Building an Online Shop 9. Managing Payments and Orders 10. Extending Your Shop 11. Adding Internationalization to Your Shop 12. Building an E-Learning Platform 13. Creating a Content Management System 14. Rendering and Caching Content 15. Building an API 16. Building a Chat Server 17. Going Live 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Creating nested serializers

If we want to include more information about each module, we need to serialize Module objects and nest them. Modify the previous code of the api/serializers.py file of the courses application to make it look as follows:

from django.db.models import Count
from rest_framework import serializers
from courses.models import Course, Module, Subject
class ModuleSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Module
        fields = ['order', 'title', 'description']
class CourseSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    modules = ModuleSerializer(many=True, read_only=True)
    class Meta:
        # ...

In the new code, you define ModuleSerializer to provide serialization for the Module model. Then, you modify the modules attribute of CourseSerializer to nest the ModuleSerializer serializer. You keep many=True to indicate that you are serializing multiple objects and read_only=True to keep this field...

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