serialize field name instead of "pk"

[Brian Craft]

I have a model with a "name" field that is the primary key. When
serializing, this field gets serialized as "pk" instead of "name".

Is there an easy way to get django to serialize with the actual field
name instead of changing it to pk?

[Russell Keith-Magee]

In short -- no. Django's serializers are fairly primitive, and not especially customizable.

If you need to customize the field names during serialization, you'll either need to roll your own serialization (e.g., write a model->Python dictionary converter, and pass that the json.dumps()), or use a third party serialization tool.

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)