Django Rest Framework - Read nested data, write integer

Question

So far I\'m extremely happy with Django Rest Framework, which is why I alsmost can\'t believe there\'s such a large omission in the codebase. Hopefully someone knows of a wa

Answer 1

You can create a Customized Serializer Field (http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/fields)

The example took from the link:

class ColourField(serializers.WritableField):
    """
    Color objects are serialized into "rgb(#, #, #)" notation.
    """
    def to_native(self, obj):
        return "rgb(%d, %d, %d)" % (obj.red, obj.green, obj.blue)

    def from_native(self, data):
        data = data.strip('rgb(').rstrip(')')
        red, green, blue = [int(col) for col in data.split(',')]
        return Color(red, green, blue)

Then use this field in your serializer class.