New add-on: DRF FlexFields for dynamic fields and nested objects

[rsinger86]

I've been using DRF for the past year. After struggling with so-called "minimalist" REST frameworks, DRF has transformed my programming experience for the better. Thanks Tom Christie and the rest of the Django/DRF community!

I often use some additional functionality to dynamically expand primitive fields into nested objects, and to dynamically set which fields are returned in my responses. I didn't see a similar package out there, though there are more complex and more basic ones. Big thanks to those authors for some design inspiration. 

So I thought I'd package up the additional functionality I place in most of my projects and share it with the community:

https://github.com/rsinger86/drf-flex-fields

[Tom Christie]

Great stuff!

There's two recommendations that we make to anyone authoring a new third party package.

Firstly it's well worth issuing a pull request that adds a link to your package from the documentation.

In your case, it'd be worth linking to flex-fields from this section:

http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/fields/#third-party-packages

Also worth adding to the Django packages site, under the "django-rest-framework" grid:

https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/django-rest-framework/

Thanks & all the best,

  Tom

[rsinger86]

I created a pull request for the addition to the docs:

https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/pull/4773

I plan to add to the Django packages site soon. Thanks again for this awesome framework!