Fix issues with custom pagination serializers

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/pagination.py b/rest_framework/pagination.py
index 5755a235..92d41e0e 100644
--- a/rest_framework/pagination.py
+++ b/rest_framework/pagination.py
@@ -34,6 +34,17 @@ class PreviousPageField(serializers.Field):
         return replace_query_param(url, self.page_field, page)
 
 
+class DefaultObjectSerializer(serializers.Field):
+    """
+    If no object serializer is specified, then this serializer will be applied
+    as the default.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, source=None, context=None):
+        # Note: Swallow context kwarg - only required for eg. ModelSerializer.
+        super(DefaultObjectSerializer, self).__init__(source=source)
+
+
 class PaginationSerializerOptions(serializers.SerializerOptions):
     """
     An object that stores the options that may be provided to a
@@ -44,7 +55,7 @@ class PaginationSerializerOptions(serializers.SerializerOptions):
     def __init__(self, meta):
         super(PaginationSerializerOptions, self).__init__(meta)
         self.object_serializer_class = getattr(meta, 'object_serializer_class',
-                                               serializers.Field)
+                                               DefaultObjectSerializer)
 
 
 class BasePaginationSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
@@ -70,13 +81,6 @@ class BasePaginationSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
 
         self.fields[results_field] = object_serializer(source='object_list', **context_kwarg)
 
-    def to_native(self, obj):
-        """
-        Prevent default behaviour of iterating over elements, and serializing
-        each in turn.
-        """
-        return self.convert_object(obj)
-
 
 class PaginationSerializer(BasePaginationSerializer):
     """