Django-taggit: can not have all the data with key in tags object

Question

I am trying to achieve my event model with tags object nested with it. But tags have only name field, I need both id, name and slug as well.

here is my Model looks like

model.py

class Event(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=151, db_index=True)
    description = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)
    tags = TaggableManager()
serializers.py

class EventSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    slug = serializers.SerializerMethodField()
    tags = TagListSerializerField()

the Result I am having:

{
            "id": 52,
            "slug": "52-aperiam-amet",
            "tags": [
                "hello",
                "world"
            ],
            "title": "Aperiam amet",
            "description": "Quibusdam ipsum sun Quibusdam ipsum sun Quibusdam ipsum sun ",
        },

but expected tags nest should look like

"tags": [
                {
                   id:"1",
                   slug:'1-hello',
                   name:"hello"
                },
                {
                   id:"2",
                   slug:'2-world',
                   name:"world"
                },
            ],

Answer 1

You can work with a TagSerializer:

from taggit.models import Tag


class TagSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Tag
        fields = ('id', 'name', 'slug')

and then work with:

class EventSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    slug = serializers.SerializerMethodField()
    tags = TagSerializer(many=True)

That being said, essentially Taggit aims to hide the tag model and expose it as just strings, this is likely the main task django-taggit aims to achieve, and likely is better since exposing the primary key makes it more complicated.