Additional field while serializing django rest framework

Question

I am a newbie to django rest framework and have created a sample Employee model.

My models.py:

class Employees(models.Model         


        

Answer 1

Provided that the Employee is a login user, then most of us will use django.auth.User, I will share how Employee can be implemented as another Profile (extension of django User). Also with the addition of full_name.read_only, first_name.write_only, and last_name.write_only

# models.py
class Employee(models.Model):
    """User Profile Model"""
    user = models.OneToOneField('auth.User')

# serializers.py
class EmployeeSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    username = serializers.CharField(source='user.username')
    email = serializers.EmailField(source='user.email')

    first_name = serializers.CharField(
            source='user.first_name', write_only=True)
    last_name = serializers.CharField(
            source='user.last_name', write_only=True)
    name = serializers.CharField(
            source='user.get_full_name', read_only=True)


    class Meta:
        model = Employee
        fields = (
            'url', 'username', 'email',
            'first_name', 'last_name', 'name')
        depth = 1