Oh derp, figured this out. Need the HyperlinkedRelatedField and
writable=True
On Tuesday, 9 October 2018 06:39:02 UTC-7, rou...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> How do I get DRF to render a select field for selecting a related model on
> a foreignkey field? Cannot find this covered in the docs and most of my
> models have a related model in the form of a user or group or category and
> need a select field in order to be used. Is there some extra parameter to
> pass?
>
> An example serializer is below. The Author is not required as it will be
> set to the logged in user on create, but the writing_form and category are
> required for creation, so the API Create and Update forms are not usable
> for testing the API:
>
> class WritingSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
> """
> Main serializers for the writings module
> """
> author = MemberListSerializer(many=False, read_only=True)
> writing_form = WritingFormSerializer(many=False, read_only=True)
> category = CategorySerializer(many=False, read_only=True)
> comments = CommentSerializer(many=True, read_only=True)
>
> class Meta:
> model = Writing
> fields = (
> 'id',
> 'slug',
> 'url',
> 'title',
> 'description',
> 'created',
> 'edited',
> 'writing_form',
> 'category',
> 'author',
> 'body',
> 'comments'
> )
> lookup_field = 'slug'
> extra_kwargs = {
> 'url': {'lookup_field': 'slug'}
> }
>
>
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