How can I change the html form fields default mapping, to populate its value from the response?

[Manish Shah]

Greetings everyone,

I have these nested serializers, in which the fields are not appropriately maped to html form fields in default browsable API page of django rest_framework, I have customized the representation of the response, and now I want to map those values to the appropriate HTML form fields

Below is my `serializer`

``` python

from rest_framework_gis import serializers as gis_serializers

from rest_framework import serializers

class NestedtLocationSerializer(gis_serializers.GeoFeatureModelSerializer):

    class Meta:

        model = Location

        geo_field = 'geometry'

        fields = (

            'type',

            'is_mobile',

            'name',

            'address',

            'geometry',

        )

class NestedFloorplanSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    class Meta:

        model = FloorPlan

        fields = (

            'floor',

            'image',

        )

class DeviceLocationSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    location = NestedtLocationSerializer()

    floorplan = NestedFloorplanSerializer(required=False, allow_null=True)

    class Meta:

        model = DeviceLocation

        fields = (

            'location',

            'floorplan',

            'indoor',

        )

```

with the above serilaizers, I am getting this:-

Response:-

But in the html form fields the values of `is_mobile`, `type`, `name` are not loading in the html form fields, (probably because the representation of the data has been customized):-

Is there any way, I can control the default mapping of these values to appropriate serializer fields to fill the values in the form in the django-rest-framework browsable page??

[Abeer Eltanawy]

You will need to loop over the response values using map and assign each value to their designated form field.

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[Manish Shah]

Hi, thanks for the answer. This form in the screenshot has not been made by me it is the default Browsable Page of rest_framework which maps the serializer fields to fill in the value to it, I was thinking of some generic way like having a method or option to manipulate how the fields value are rendered, to fill in the value!!!