Django Rest Framework make OnetoOne relation ship feel like it is one model

Question

I have my User saved in two different models, UserProfile and User. Now from API perspective, nobody really cares that these two are d

Answer 1

I just came across this; I have yet to find a good solution particularly for writing back to my User and UserProfile models. I am currently flattening my serializers manually using the SerializerMethodField, which is hugely irritating, but it works:

class UserSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):

    mobile = serializers.SerializerMethodField('get_mobile')
    favourite_locations = serializers.SerializerMethodField('get_favourite_locations')

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('url', 'username', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'mobile', 'favourite_locations')

    def get_mobile(self, obj):
        return obj.get_profile().mobile

    def get_favourite_locations(self, obj):
        return obj.get_profile().favourite_locations

This is horribly manual, but you do end up with:

{
    "url": "http://example.com/api/users/1",
    "username": "jondoe",
    "first_name": "Jon",
    "last_name": "Doe",
    "email": "jdoe@example.com",
    "mobile": "701-680-3095",
    "favourite_locations": [
        "Paris",
        "London",
        "Tokyo"
    ]
}

Which, I guess is what you're looking for.