CamelCase field names

[jus...@battlefy.com]

What would be a good way to achieve CamelCase field names with django-rest-framework?

Our Django models' fields are defined with with underscore.. for example, "start_date = models.DateTimeField()"

In Javascript, camelCase is most widely adopted. So, I would want to access the variable above as "startDate".

Any suggestions? Many thanks.

Cheers,
Justin

[Matteo Suppo]

You can do something like 

startDate = models.DateTimeField(source='start_date')

but you will have to do it for every field.

[jus...@battlefy.com]

Yes. I can definitely do that.

I was wondering if there's a easier way to intercept the creation of those field and make them CamelCase.

Thanks,
Justin

[Tom Christie]

I was wondering if there's a easier way to intercept the creation of those field and make them CamelCase.

Not at the moment, no.

I would like that to be supported tho'.

Something along the lines of a 'get_field_name' on the serializer class that can be overridden, and a setting that defines the default function and allows secs to switch to a different default style.

If you think that's something you'd be interested in implementing then fell free to open a ticket and we can talk through the implementation there.

Cheers,

  Tom

[Steven Kane]

Tom and all,

I am also implementing a similar conversion step except in my particular case I'm looking to convert PrimaryKeyRelatedField's into the following format:

#on model

parent = models.ForeignKey()

#on serializer

parent_id = serializer.PrimaryKeyRelatedField(source='parent')

is that correct for doing this process on each field manually?

Steve

[Steven Kane]

Ok I jumped the gun a bit as it's early morning

I have implemented these hardcoded changes into my model and it works as expected though I am only interested in changing the behavior of related fields.

#on serializer

class MySerializer (serializers.ModelSerializer):

  class Meta:

     model = MyModel

     exclude = ('my_second_model',)

  my_second_model_id = serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField(source='my_second_model')

Steve

[Jacob G]

Hi, Was just wondering if this was ever implemented? Doesn't seem so. I'm also interesting in doing this.

[Vitaly Babiy]

Here is the solution I have been using:

https://gist.github.com/vbabiy/5842073

[Jacob G]

Thanks Vitaly. That works nicely for rendering, but I don't think it does the inverse, i.e., to write/deserialize data.

[Jacob G]

The following Git issue has been created: https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/944

[Vitaly Babiy]

I have update the gist with a parser.

https://gist.github.com/vbabiy/5842073