Defining hyperlinks with serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer
Now, add the following code to the serializers.py file to declare the DroneSerializer class. The code file for the sample is included in the hillar_django_restful_06_01 folder in the restful01/drones/serializers.py file:
class DroneSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
# Display the category name
drone_category = serializers.SlugRelatedField(queryset=DroneCategory.objects.all(), slug_field='name')
class Meta:
model = Drone
fields = (
'url',
'name',
'drone_category',
'manufacturing_date',
'has_it_competed',
'inserted_timestamp') The DroneSerializer class is a subclass of the HyperlinkedModelSerializer class. The DroneSerializer class declares a drone_category attribute that holds an instance of serializers.SlugRelatedField with its queryset argument set to DroneCategory.objects.all() and its slug_field...