Disable creating nested objects in django rest framework

Question

Hi,

Can you help me how to disable creating nested objects ?

I have serializers like this:
(Employee has ForeignKey to Team) <

Answer 1

I found that ModelSerializer.to_native() and ModelSerializer.from_native() don't exist in the latest version of DRF. I came up with the following derived from the accepted solution:

class PlayerSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Player
        fields = ('id', 'name', 'team')

    def to_internal_value(self, data):
        # If team is not a dict, such as when submitting via the Browseable UI, this would fail.
        try:
            data['team'] = data['team']['id']
        except TypeError:
            pass
        return super(PlayerSerializer, self).to_internal_value(data)

    def to_representation(self, instance):
        return ReadPlayerSerializer(instance).data


class ReadPlayerSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    team = TeamSerializer()

    class Meta(PlayerSerializer.Meta):
        pass

Effectively, it seems that from_native is now to_representation, and to_native is no to_internal_value