How can I turn Django Model objects into a dictionary and still have their foreign keys? [duplicate]

Answer 1

None of the other answers quite worked for me. This, however, seemed to do the trick.

def model_to_dict(instance, include=None, exclude=None):
    fields = instance._meta.concrete_fields
    if include is not None:
        return {f.attname: getattr(instance, f.attname) for f in fields if f.name in include}
    if exclude is not None:
        return {f.attname: getattr(instance, f.attname) for f in fields if f.name not in exclude}
    return {f.attname: getattr(instance, f.attname) for f in fields}