Serialize django model with foreign key models

Question

How to serialize Django model in json format if I want to include foreign key models fields?

If I have:

class Model1(models.Model):
    name=models.C         


        

Answer 1

it's been sometimes that i didn't work on django but is this work for you ?

import simplejson as json

data = Model1.objects.get(pk=some_id)

to_dump =  {'pk': data.pk, 'name':data.name, 
           'fields':{'field_1':data.child.field_1, 
                     'field_2':data.child.field_2 
                    }
            }

json_data = json.dumps(to_dump)