django serialize foreign key objects

Question

• Serialize django model with foreign key models
• Serializing Foreign Key objects in Django
• get foreign key objects in a single query - Django

Answer 1

One potential way around this is to construct your own dictionary object based on the returns of a queryset. You'd do something like this:

queryset = Model.objects.all()
list = [] #create list
for row in queryset: #populate list
    list.append({'title':row.title, 'body': row.body, 'name': row.user.username})
recipe_list_json = json.dumps(list) #dump list as JSON
return HttpResponse(recipe_list_json, 'application/javascript')

You need to import json for this to work.

import json