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

Question

Description of the problem

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Answer 1

You can rename field in the overloaded version of get_fields() method

class MySerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    class_ = serializers.ReadOnlyField()

    def get_fields(self):
        result = super().get_fields()
        # Rename `class_` to `class`
        class_ = result.pop('class_')
        result['class'] = class_
        return result