I Am just starting with django tastypie, and I Am enthousiastic about it. My question: I Am searching for the same feature as in the admin view: specify for foreignkey fields what to see in the list response of other objects and what in the detailed response.
let's say this is my simplyfied model:
class Location(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=256, blank=True)
longitude = models.FloatField(blank=True, default=0.0)
latitude = models.FloatField(blank=True, default=0.0)
description = models.CharField(max_length=256, blank=True)
shortname = models.CharField(max_length=256, blank=True)
tooltiptext = models.CharField(max_length=1000, blank=True)
locationtype = models.ForeignKey(LocationType, blank=True, null=True)
public_anonymous = models.BooleanField(default=False, blank=False, null=False)
public_authorized = models.BooleanField(default=False, blank=False, null=False)
def __str__(self):
return '%s' % (self.name)
class Variable(models.Model):
abbreviation = models.CharField(max_length=64, unique=True)
name = models.CharField(max_length=256, blank=True)
unit = models.CharField(max_length=64, blank=True)
def __str__(self):
return '%s [%s]' % (self.name, self.unit)
class Timeseries(models.Model):
locationkey = models.ForeignKey(Location)
variablekey = models.ForeignKey(Variable)
tstypekey = models.ForeignKey(TimeseriesType)
def __str__(self):
return '%s: %s (%s)' % (self.locationkey.name, self.variablekey.name, self.tstypekey.name)
and these are my resources for the api:
class LocationResource(ModelResource):
class Meta:
queryset = Location.objects.all()
resource_name = 'location'
excludes = ['public_anonymous', 'public_authorized']
authentication = BasicAuthentication()
authorization = DjangoAuthorization()
class VariableResource(ModelResource):
class Meta:
queryset = Variable.objects.all()
resource_name = 'variable'
authentication = BasicAuthentication()
authorization = DjangoAuthorization()
class TimeseriesTypeResource(ModelResource):
class Meta:
queryset = TimeseriesType.objects.all()
resource_name = 'timeseriestype'
authentication = BasicAuthentication()
authorization = DjangoAuthorization()
class TimeseriesResource(ModelResource):
location = fields.ForeignKey(LocationResource, 'locationkey', full=False)
variable = fields.ForeignKey(VariableResource, 'variablekey', full=False)
timeseriestype = fields.ForeignKey(TimeseriesTypeResource, 'tstypekey', full=False)
class Meta:
queryset = Timeseries.objects.all()
resource_name = 'timeseries'
authentication = BasicAuthentication()
authorization = DjangoAuthorization()
In the TimeseriesResource if you use full=False, you just get an url with an id, if you use full=True you get all the information. In real the location has a lot more information.
I need just a bit more information than full='False' but not all the information using full=True.
I do not want to use the exclude option, because than I do not have the information in the detailed information or in the list of the Location object itselve.
one of the options I was thinking about, is making 2 resources for the same object, but this doesn't feel like the best solution (but I guess it will work). By the way: I thought over this option, will not work (ofcourse), better use the workaround usggested in the answer of bmihelac (thanks).
Although... trying the workaround... leads me to a new question, see:
django-tastypie: Cannot access bundle.request in dehydrate(self,bundle)