norbert_mate

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   by norbert_mate 12y ago

   Hi languagehacker, this is not science fiction. It just shows you a way of implementing a serializer that works for all kind of models in Django Rest Framework.
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   by norbert_mate 12y ago

   Thanks.
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   by norbert_mate 12y ago

   "The best documentation is the source code" :-) . I use to read it but sometimes is really hard to understand what's going on. As you said the serializer does a lot of thing.
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   by norbert_mate 12y ago

   Correct. It's very easy to create a simple model serializer and this is what the general model serializer does. It's no big deal just saves a few line of code.
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   by norbert_mate 12y ago

   I agree with you. It is a bit weird that a serializer can interact with the database but what it basically does: hides the database interaction.
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   by norbert_mate 12y ago

   In Django Rest Framework (DRF) you need serializer class. Maybe this is because DRF is not tightly coupled with the models from Django framework. As far as I know DRF does not support PUT/UPDATE operations for nested serializers. But t
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   Django Rest Framework general model serializer(blog.hipwerk.com)

   64 points by norbert_mate 12y ago|25 comments