I have two objects, Company and Account, in different packages. They have a many-to-many relation through employee, which has an additional field is_admin.
In Company I define the relation, and reading online, it seems that I don't have to redifine the relation in Account (this will result in a circular import).
Retrieving all the Accounts from the CompanySerializer is no problem, but I need to be able to get all the Companies registered to an account as well.
This is my thinking:
Account Model:
class Account(AbstractBaseUser):
current_jobs = models.ManyToManyField(
Company, through='Employee') // I need to define current_jobs in some way
//,but this results in circular import
Company Model:
class Company(models.Model):
employees = models.ManyToManyField(
settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, through='Employee')
Employee Model:
class Employee(models.Model):
class Meta:
unique_together = ('user', 'company')
user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL,
on_delete=models.CASCADE)
company = models.ForeignKey(Company, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
is_admin = models.BooleanField()
The problem is, how will I now define how to get each of the lists in the serializers of the two. So the Company Serializer, and the Account Serializer...
If i do not define current_jobs, I get an error stating that current_jobs is not defined, which it ofcourse is not.
I don't understand why you think you need to define current_jobs on Account. That is automatically provided for you via the reverse relationship as company_set; if you need it to be current_jobs you can set the related_name attribute.