How to pass extra context to Django Rest Framework serializers

Question

It is my first project using Django rest framework and i\'m struggling to get this right. I know that in mainstream Django framework, if i need to add extra contexts to a cl

Answer 1

You have to use get_object as func, not as property:

class PostViewSets(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = Post.objects.all()
    serializer_class = PostSerializer

     def get_serializer_context(self):
        context = super(PostViewSets, self).get_serializer_context()
        author = self.get_object().author
        author_posts = self.get_queryset().filter(author=author)
        context.update({'author_posts': author_posts})
        return context