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@ -432,6 +432,16 @@ This behavior is now replaced with *always* using an explicit `queryset` argumen
Doing so reduces the amount of hidden 'magic' that `ModelSerializer` provides, makes the behavior of the field more clear, and ensures that it is trivial to move between using the `ModelSerializer` shortcut, or using fully explicit `Serializer` classes.
## Customizing the HTML display
The built-in `__str__` method of the model will be used to generate string representations of the objects used to populate the `choices` property. These choices are used to populate select HTML inputs in the browsable API.
To provide customized representations for such inputs, override `display_value()` of a `RelatedField` subclass. This method will receive a model object, and should return a string suitable for representing it. For example:
class TrackPrimaryKeyRelatedField(serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField):
def display_value(self, instance):
return 'Track: %s' % (instance.title)
## Reverse relations
Note that reverse relationships are not automatically included by the `ModelSerializer` and `HyperlinkedModelSerializer` classes. To include a reverse relationship, you must explicitly add it to the fields list. For example:
@ -537,14 +547,6 @@ If you explicitly specify a relational field pointing to a
``ManyToManyField`` with a through model, be sure to set ``read_only``
to ``True``.
## The `display_value` method
The `__str__` (`__unicode__` on Python 2) method of the model will be called to generate string representations of the objects used to populate the `choices` property. These choices are used to populate select HTML inputs in the browsable API. To provide customized representations for such inputs, override `display_value` of a `RelatedField` subclass. This method will receive a model object, and should return a string suitable for representing it. For example:
class TrackPrimaryKeyRelatedField(serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField):
def display_value(self, instance):
return 'Track: %s' % (instance.title)
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# Third Party Packages