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How to add custom field in ModelSerializer?

In fact there a solution without touching at all the model. You can use SerializerMethodField which allow you to plug any method to your serializer. class FooSerializer(ModelSerializer): foo = serializers.SerializerMethodField() def get_foo(self, obj): return “Foo id: %i” % obj.pk

Django rest framework serializing many to many field

You will need a TagSerializer, whose class Meta has model = Tag. After TagSerializer is created, modify the PostSerializer with many=True for a ManyToManyField relation: class PostSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): tag = TagSerializer(read_only=True, many=True) class Meta: model = Post fields = (‘tag’, ‘text’,) Answer is for DRF 3