Different list / retrieve serialization for ModelViewSet

[Kai Schlamp]

Hello together.

What is the best way to have different serialized fields for list and retrieve. When listing objects I want less fields included than when retrieving a single object (which is quite a common case I guess). Do I have to use different (custom) ViewSets for this or different serializers?

Kind regards,

Kai

[Kai Schlamp]

What seems to work fine is to overwrite the list method of ModelViewSet and set another serializer_class (so having different serializers for one ModelViewSet). Is this the recommended way?

[Tom Christie]

I'd recommend overriding get_serializer_class and returning a different serializer in each case.

See here: http://django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/generic-views.html#get_serializer_classself

You can inspect self.action inside a viewset to determine if its a list or retrieve action, or check self.kwargs for the pk arg.

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