from rest_framework import serializers # TODO: Support URLconf kwarg-style paging class NextPageField(serializers.Field): """ Field that returns a link to the next page in paginated results. """ def to_native(self, value): if not value.has_next(): return None page = value.next_page_number() request = self.context.get('request') relative_url = '?page=%d' % page if request: return request.build_absolute_uri(relative_url) return relative_url class PreviousPageField(serializers.Field): """ Field that returns a link to the previous page in paginated results. """ def to_native(self, value): if not value.has_previous(): return None page = value.previous_page_number() request = self.context.get('request') relative_url = '?page=%d' % page if request: return request.build_absolute_uri('?page=%d' % page) return relative_url class PaginationSerializerOptions(serializers.SerializerOptions): """ An object that stores the options that may be provided to a pagination serializer by using the inner `Meta` class. Accessible on the instance as `serializer.opts`. """ def __init__(self, meta): super(PaginationSerializerOptions, self).__init__(meta) self.object_serializer_class = getattr(meta, 'object_serializer_class', serializers.Field) class BasePaginationSerializer(serializers.Serializer): """ A base class for pagination serializers to inherit from, to make implementing custom serializers more easy. """ _options_class = PaginationSerializerOptions _results_field = 'results' def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): """ Override init to add in the object serializer field on-the-fly. """ super(BasePaginationSerializer, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) results_field = self._results_field object_serializer = self.opts.object_serializer_class self.fields[results_field] = object_serializer(source='object_list') def to_native(self, obj): """ Prevent default behaviour of iterating over elements, and serializing each in turn. """ return self.convert_object(obj) class PaginationSerializer(BasePaginationSerializer): """ A default implementation of a pagination serializer. """ count = serializers.Field(source='paginator.count') next = NextPageField(source='*') previous = PreviousPageField(source='*')