Return created object but with fewer fields

[Norbert P]

When creating and object in POST method how do you return only a few fields of created object? This is taken from the documentation:

    def post(self, request, format=None):
            serializer = SnippetSerializer(data=request.data)
            if serializer.is_valid():
                serializer.save()
                return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
            return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)

Here `serializer.data` includes all of the fields defined in serializer but I only want to return just a few of them.

[Tom Christie]

Either:

* Consider using write_only=True on the fields you don't want as output.
* Use a different serializer for returning the response to the one you us for validation.
* Just return the response data directly, without using a serializer.

[Norbert P]

Thanks very much for the reply Tom. Also thanks for the effort you put for DRF.