Naming a JSON Array in Django REST API

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I've seen some of the similar questions on this subject, but the structure of other posters' code is different than the tutorial I followed for building the REST api (http://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/quickstart/). Following the tutorial, I get an unnamed JSON response when querying the API. I have serializers.py and views.py as the two files that process the JSON:

serializers.py:

from rest_framework import serializers
from main.models import Request

class RequestSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    class Meta:
        model = Request
        fields = ('user', 'request', 'time')

views.py

class RequestViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = Request.objects.all().order_by('-time')
    serializer_class = RequestSerializer
    paginate_by = None

Other solutions have been along the lines of adding return Response({"data": serializer.data}), but I'm unsure where I could add this in my code.

Exprator · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-18 06:09:49Z

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class RequestSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
     results_field = "your selected name"

or you can override the list method

def list(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    self.object_list = self.filter_queryset(self.get_queryset())
    serializer = self.get_serializer(self.object_list, many=True)
    return Response({'results': serializer.data})

answered Jul 18, 2017 at 6:09

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hackerman Over a year ago

Thank you @Exprator. The second method worked for me.

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