How to dynamically remove fields from serializer output

Question

I\'m developing an API with Django Rest framework, and I would like to dynamically remove the fields from a serializer. The problem is that I need to remove them depending o

Answer 1

You can customize the serialization behavior by overriding the to_representation() method in your serializer.

class DynamicSerliazer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    def to_representation(self, obj):
        # get the original representation
        ret = super(DynamicSerializer, self).to_representation(obj)

        # remove 'url' field if mobile request
        if is_mobile_platform(self.context.get('request', None)):
            ret.pop('url')

        # here write the logic to check whether `elements` field is to be removed 
        # pop 'elements' from 'ret' if condition is True

        # return the modified representation
        return ret