Django REST framework: create JSON fragments from string
django, django-rest-framework, rest, serialization
Solution
Convert your response to json object
import json
## In this case lets say
response = [{"name":"A", "surname":"B"}]
data = json.dumps(response)
print data
Problem
I want to store JSON fragments in TextField of my model with JSON: ``` class A(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=200) people = models.TextField() ``` I have serializer class: ``` class ASerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer): class Meta: model = A fields = ('name', 'people') ``` How can I told Django REST Framework to treat people string like JSON, not like string. E.g. when people is [ {"name":"A", "surname":"B"}] I want have in JSON generated by Django REST framework ``` "people" : [ {"name":"A", "surname":"B"}] ``` and not ``` "people" : "[ {\"name\":\"A\", \"surname\":\"B\"}]" ``` Edit: I change ASerializer class and used JSONField from django-jsonfield and everything works. New code below, transform_people method serves to serialization and validate_people to deserialization: ``` class ASerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): def transform_people(self, obj, value): if obj is None: return obj else: return obj.people def validate_people(self, attrs, source): return attrs class Meta: model = A ```