From bb21216a7c7f3435ece44462beb24275bb44551a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Christie <tom@tomchristie.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 12:16:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Metadata API should examine child serializer if passed parent
 ListSerializer. Closes #2035.

---
 rest_framework/metadata.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rest_framework/metadata.py b/rest_framework/metadata.py
index b08d3ab67..90d3f2e01 100644
--- a/rest_framework/metadata.py
+++ b/rest_framework/metadata.py
@@ -96,6 +96,10 @@ class SimpleMetadata(BaseMetadata):
         Given an instance of a serializer, return a dictionary of metadata
         about its fields.
         """
+        if hasattr(serializer, 'child'):
+            # If this is a `ListSerializer` then we want to examine the
+            # underlying child serializer instance instead.
+            serializer = serializer.child
         return OrderedDict([
             (field_name, self.get_field_info(field))
             for field_name, field in serializer.fields.items()