How to serialize an 'object list' in Django REST Framework

Question

I need a serializer for something like this:

{
    \"items\": {
        12: {
            \"name\": \"item 1\"
        },
        66: {
            \"name\": \"i         


        

Answer 1

There is a ListField in django rest framework 3, you can check documentation here http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/fields/#listfield

For your example you can do something like this:

class ItemSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    id = serializers.IntegerField()
    name = serializers.CharField()

class ItemsSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    items = serializers.ListField(child=ItemSerializer())

The later serializer can be also:

class ItemsSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    items = ItemSerializer(many=True)