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

Serializer is not needed. You can do simpler with Class-base View:

from rest_framework import views
from rest_framework.response import Response
from django.http import JsonResponse

class ListItems(views.APIView):

    def get(self, request, format=None):
        items = Item.objects.all().values()
        return return JsonResponse(list(items), safe=False)