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django-piston: how to get values of a many to many field?

I have a model with ManyToManyField to another model. I would like to get all the info on a particular record (including the related info from other models) return by JSON.

How to get django-piston to display those values? I would be happy with just primary keys. Or can you suggest another option ?

Solution

  • I may be wrong, but this should do it:

    class PersonHandler(BaseHandler):
    model = Person
    fields = ('id', ('friends', ('id', 'name')), 'name')

    def read(self, request):
        return Person.objects.filter(...)