all about Django Rest Framework (DRF)

sample projects

disable browsable API

Based on Debug

if not DEBUG:
    REST_FRAMEWORK["DEFAULT_RENDERER_CLASSES"] = (
            "rest_framework.renderers.JSONRenderer",
        )

part of codes

codes

generics.py

recursive fields (like Children Nodes in a Tree)

https://github.com/heywbj/django-rest-framework-recursive

dataclass support for serializer

https://github.com/oxan/djangorestframework-dataclasses

nested routes

https://github.com/alanjds/drf-nested-routers

support GIS (Geographic fields)

https://github.com/openwisp/django-rest-framework-gis

JWT auth plugin

https://github.com/jazzband/djangorestframework-simplejwt

https://github.com/Styria-Digital/django-rest-framework-jwt

auth

https://github.com/iMerica/dj-rest-auth

standardize errors

https://github.com/ghazi-git/drf-standardized-errors

https://drf-standardized-errors.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html

serializer source field

Docs

The name of the attribute that will be used to populate the field. May be a method that only takes a self argument, such as URLField(source='get_absolute_url'), or may use dotted notation to traverse attributes, such as EmailField(source='user.email').

When serializing fields with dotted notation, it may be necessary to provide a default value if any object is not present or is empty during attribute traversal. Beware of possible n+1 problems when using source attribute if you are accessing a relational orm model. For example:

class CommentSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    email = serializers.EmailField(source="user.email")

This case would require user object to be fetched from database when it is not prefetched. If that is not wanted, be sure to be using prefetch_related and select_related methods appropriately. For more information about the methods refer to django documentation.

The value source='*' has a special meaning, and is used to indicate that the entire object should be passed through to the field. This can be useful for creating nested representations, or for fields which require access to the complete object in order to determine the output representation.

Defaults to the name of the field.

source='*'