Using the reserved word “class” as field name in Django and Django REST Framework

Question

Description of the problem

Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics. Organisms are grou

Answer 1

You can do it like below

class SpeciesSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Species
        fields = (
            'url', 'id', 'canonical_name', 'slug',  'species', 'genus',
            'subfamily', 'family', 'order','class', 'phylum',
            'ncbi_id', 'ncbi_taxonomy',
        )
        read_only_fields = ('slug',)
        extra_kwargs = {
            'url': {'lookup_field': 'slug'}
        }

SpeciesSerializer._declared_fields["class"] = serializers.CharField(source="class_name")

As explained in below answer

https://stackoverflow.com/a/47717441/2830850