I am trying to use nested serializer. How do I use the root serializer to filter data on the grandchild serializer?
School and Program have a many to many relationship So that any school can subscribe to any program. Each school has classes and those classes are part of a program, that's why PClass has foreign keys to both School and program.
When I call my api .../api/school/1 I want to get all the programs that school subscribes to and which classes are available in each program (in that school)
class School(TimeStampedModel, SoftDeletableModel):
name = models.CharField(max_length=40)
slug = models.SlugField(max_length=40, default='', blank=True)
class Program(TimeStampedModel, SoftDeletableModel):
name = models.CharField(max_length=50, unique=True)
slug = models.SlugField(max_length=50,default='',blank=True, unique=True)
description = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
school = models.ForeignKey(School, blank=True, null=True, related_name="programs")
class PClass(TimeStampedModel, SoftDeletableModel):
name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
slug = models.SlugField(max_length=50,default='',blank=True)
description = models.CharField(max_length=100)
program = models.ForeignKey(Program, related_name="classes")
school = models.ForeignKey(School, related_name="classes")
and the following serializers:
class SchoolSerializer( serializers.ModelSerializer):
programs = ProgramSerializer(source='get_programas',many=True,read_only=True)
class Meta:
model = School
fields = '__all__'
lookup_field = 'slug'
extra_kwargs = {
'url': {'lookup_field': 'slug'}
}
class PClassSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = Class
fields = ('name','slug')
class ProgramSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
school = serializers.SlugRelatedField(queryset=School.objects.all(),
slug_field='name',
required=False)
classes = PClassSerializer(many=True,read_only=True)
class Meta:
model = Program
exclude = ('id',)
lookup_field = 'slug'
extra_kwargs = {
'url': {'lookup_field': 'slug'}
}
is this possible? or is it a problem with the way I set up my models?