Consider the following serializer
class MyModelSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = MyModel
fields = ('id', 'account')
depth = 1
The field account refers to a ForeignKey in MyModel and I want to expose some of the Account fields with this serializer but not all of them.
How do I specify that only account.name and account.email should be serialized?
You can do this by creating your own serializer to use as the nested serializer.
class AccountSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = Account
fields = ('name', 'email', )
You are better off with creating specialized serializers instead of relying on Django REST Framework to create them for you. By default, serializers that are automatically created contain all fields defined on the model.
class MyModelSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
account = AccountSerializer()
class Meta:
model = MyModel
fields = ('id', 'account', )
You can find out more about nested serializers in the Django REST Framework documentation.
ModelSerializer to include that feature in Django REST framework though.