How does the get_list tastypie function work?

I'm trying to use the get_list tastypie function but I can't make it work. I've looked for documentation about that but I can't find it.

Whatever, I've a list of item ids and an ItemResource. I'm trying to return a list of serialized objects. So I just want to do something like that :

item_resource = ItemResource()
item_ids = my_item_id_list
return item_resource.get_list(request, id=item_ids)

But of course it's not working. What would be the correct syntax to do that ?

Thx !

Solution

Unless your ItemResource accepts filters (more here), you have to copy-paste all the stuff from here, lines #1306 - #1313.

The point is that get_list results get filtered only by obj_get_list (initial filters), and apply_filters (request-specific filters) so you have to skip directly to the serialization part (you can include the pagination part, if needed).

This is one of the cases where django-restframework appears to be better than django-tastypie - it refactores serialization out into a separate class, avoiding the code duplication.