How do I create a serializer for one to many (Foreign key) relationship?

March 1, 2023

I have to upload multiple images and save their URLs. A number of images can be uploaded but the post will be one, similarly for other posts also. I have created the models but I don’t know how to create the serializer for it.

My models are:

class Posts(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name='user_posts', on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True, blank=True)
    ###other fields

And

class PostsMedia(models.Model):
    post = models.ForeignKey(Posts, related_name='post_media', on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True, blank=True)
    media = models.URLField(max_length = 500, null=True, blank=True)

>Solution :

You can create a serializer for your PostsMedia model to allow for uploading multiple images and saving their URLs so:

class PostsMediaSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = PostsMedia
        fields = ('id', 'media')


class PostsSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    post_media = PostsMediaSerializer(many=True, required=False)

    class Meta:
        model = Posts
        fields = ('id', 'user', 'post_media', '__all__')

    def create(self, validated_data):
        post_media_data = validated_data.pop('post_media', [])
        post = super().create(validated_data)

        for one_media_data in post_media_data:
            PostsMedia.objects.create(post=post, **one_media_data)

        return post

create() method has been used to extract the post_media data from the validated data.