Adding extra data to Django Rest Framework results for entire result set

Question

I\'m using Django Rest Framework and need to add extra data to a result set. Specifically, where you would usually have:

{
    \"count\": 45, 
    \"next\":          


        

Answer 1

In the end I just created a custom pagination serializer with a field like so:

class DistanceCountField(serializers.Field):
    def to_native(self, value):
        try:
            distance_counts = {
                '1_mile': self._count_lte_miles(value, 1),
                '5_mile': self._count_lte_miles(value, 5),
                '10_mile': self._count_lte_miles(value, 10),
                '20_mile': self._count_lte_miles(value, 20),
            }
        except FieldError:
            distance_counts = None

        return distance_counts

    def _count_lte_miles(self, value, miles):
        meters = miles * 1609.344
        return value.filter(distance__lte=meters).count()


class PaginatedCountSerializer(pagination.PaginationSerializer):
    distance_counts = DistanceCountField(source='paginator.object_list')

    class Meta:
        # Class omitted, just a standard model serializer
        object_serializer_class = MyModelSerializer 

I also added a distance annotation to each object in the queryset for the filtering to work on.