Best Practice To Format Output

[Scott Woodall]

I would like to change how dates are displayed in my JSON output. Instead of "2012-12-25" I'd like show "12-25-2012". I've seen some old posts referring to subclass "Resource" or override ".serialize()" but I can't find any references to these in the django rest framework source or documentation. Are these references out of date and if so, is there a preferred way to go about this?

[Tom Christie]

At the moment, the right way to do this would be a custom field.

I'd suggest you take a look at the current implementation of DateField, and subclass that.

There's is currently work towards customizing date/time formats, but it's not yet complete...

https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/pull/631

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

  Tom

[Scott Woodall]

Looks like my procrastination has paid off in spades with todays announcement of 2.2.2 :) Thank you for all the hard work and DRF is a great product.