'dict' object has no attribute '_meta' on Django Serializer

django, django-queryset, django-serializer, json

Solution

events = (
    Event.objects.filter(e_date__year=datetime.today().year)
    .filter(e_date__month=datetime.today().month, e_status=1)
    .only("e_name", "e_date")
)

Serializer waits for normal queryset, not `ValuesQuerySet` (which is returned by `values`). If you want to query only certain fileds, use `only.`

Problem

``` def display_home(request): from datetime import * now=datetime.today() print 'Month is %s'%now.month events=Event.objects.filter(e_date__year=datetime.today().year).filter(e_date__month=datetime.today().month,e_status=1).values('e_name','e_date') return render_to_response("SecureVirtualElection/home.html",{'events': serializers.serialize("json",events, fields=('e_name','e_date'))},context_instance=RequestContext(request)) ``` ... AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute '_meta'

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