drfwn_quick

Handle full serialization of nested models quickly.

Overview

drfwn-quick (django rest framework writable nested quick) extends drf-writable-nested to allow nested models to be serialized rapidly with full data for relations by taking advantage of django's queryset.values() method.

Example API response with drfwn-quick:

[
    {
        'id': 1,
        'name': 'Beans',
        'description': 'Some beans.',
        'enabled': False,
        'vendors': [
            {
                'id': 1,
                'name': 'Beans Emporium',
                'about': 'We sell beans.',
                'enabled': False
            }
        ]
    }
]

Example without:

[
    {
        'id': 1,
        'name': 'Beans',
        'description': 'Some beans.',
        'enabled': False,
        'vendors': [1]
    }
]

Note that without drfwn-quick, the relational field "vendors" is simply a representation of database primary keys (IDs).

Features

Full Data

As seen in the overview above, responses with relations are looked-up to return complete data from the API call, not just IDs (primary keys).

Note that so long as DRFWN_QUICK_ALWAYS is falsy, a url parameter is used to control this behaviour. This means that the original serialization can remain accessible by default, for things such as the DRF UI, if desired.

Performance

Data is built quickly by only accessing queryset.values() for the object and it's relation's querysets. Because this does not instsntiate Model objects for each value within the queryset(s), it is significantly faster on larger datasets.

Timed Examples

Coming... :)

Writable

This is native to drf-writable-nested but because drfwn-quick extends it, it's worth noting that the nested values are writable, and require only IDs to do so.

However, note that a key difference between drf-writable-nested alone and drfwn-quick is that the response after ceating or updating a value can be fully contextual, if quick is enabled for that call/always.

Meaning, a POST or PUT request may have a payload with {..., "relation": [1, 3]} but still yield {..., "relation": [{"id": 1, ...}, {"id": 3, ...}]}.

settings.py

There are a few items that can be set via the local Django app's settings.py file.

Tests

Tests exist, if you want to contribute, please consider tests. There's always room for improvement on existing tests, too.

Coverage report will be added eventually.