Django Serialize Queryset to JSON to construct RESTful response with only field information and id

Question

I currently have a Post model with \'title\' and \'summary\' fields. I\'m retrieving all the Posts and returning them as JSON as part of a RESTful API interface.

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Answer 1

What you want to achieve is subset of fields dumped to json.

What you're doing is serializing whole django's ORM objects. Not good.

Keep it simple:

import json

posts = (Post.objects.filter(owner=authenticated_user)
                     .values('id', 'title', 'summary'))
json_posts = json.dumps(list(posts))