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@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ Sometimes when serializing objects, you may not want to represent everything exa
If you need to customize the serialized value of a particular field, you can do this by creating a `transform_<fieldname>` method. For example if you needed to render some markdown from a text field:
- description = serializers.TextField()
- description_html = serializers.TextField(source='description', read_only=True)
+ description = serializers.CharField()
+ description_html = serializers.CharField(source='description', read_only=True)
def transform_description_html(self, obj, value):
from django.contrib.markup.templatetags.markup import markdown
@@ -580,7 +580,21 @@ The following custom model serializer could be used as a base class for model se
def get_pk_field(self, model_field):
return None
+---
+
+# Third party packages
+
+The following third party packages are also available.
+
+## MongoengineModelSerializer
+
+The [django-rest-framework-mongoengine][mongoengine] package provides a `MongoEngineModelSerializer` serializer class that supports using MongoDB as the storage layer for Django REST framework.
+
+## GeoFeatureModelSerializer
+The [django-rest-framework-gis][django-rest-framework-gis] package provides a `GeoFeatureModelSerializer` serializer class that supports GeoJSON both for read and write operations.
[cite]: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-users/sVFaOfQi4wY/discussion
[relations]: relations.md
+[mongoengine]: https://github.com/umutbozkurt/django-rest-framework-mongoengine
+[django-rest-framework-gis]: https://github.com/djangonauts/django-rest-framework-gis