How can I pass dictionary in Django Rest Framework?

Question

In django, I was able to pass data using dictionary. Like I set the objects in my dictionary and pass it in return render and call the object in frontend (return render(request, 'c.html', context) right? so How can I do this in django rest?

Answer 1

You may return Response in rest framework like this if you are using django rest framework.

context = {'key':'value'}
return Response(context)

Or if you are using a serializer then

return Response(serializer.data)

Answer 2

In Django REST Framework the concept of Serializing is to convert DB data to a datatype that can be used by javascript. Every serializer comes with some field that is going to be processed. For example, if you have a class with the name Employee and its fields as Employee_id, Employee_name, is_admin, etc. Then, you would need AutoField, CharField, and BooleanField for storing and manipulating data through Django. Similarly, serializer also works with the same principle and has fields that are used to create a serializer.

DictField is basically a dictionary field that validates the input against a dictionary of objects. It has the following arguments:

child and allow_empty like this>>>

field_name = serializers.DictField(*args, **kwargs)

for example document = DictField(child=CharField())

you can use serializer like below>>>

from rest_framework import serializer
class Any(object):
    def __init__(self, dictonary):
        self.dict = dictionary
class AnySerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    dictionary = serializers.DictField(
    child = serializers.CharField())

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