Django Taggit Rest Serializer

About

This package is meant for the django-taggit package which is available here

The django-taggit package makes it possible to tag a certain module.

Installation

To install this package you can use the following pip installation:

pip install django-taggit-serializer

Then, add taggit_serializer to your Settings in INSTALLED_APPS:

    INSTALLED_APS = (
        ...
        'taggit_serializer',
    )

Usage

Because the tags in django-taggit need to be added into a TaggableManager() we cannot use the usual Serializer that we get from Django REST Framework. Because this is trying to save the tags into a list, which will throw an exception.

To accept tags through a REST API call we need to add the following to our Serializer:

from taggit_serializer.serializers import (TagListSerializerField,
                                           TaggitSerializer)


class YourSerializer(TaggitSerializer, serializers.ModelSerializer):

    tags = TagListSerializerField()

    class Meta:
        model = YourModel

And you're done, so now you can add tags to your model