Serialise an extended User Model in Django - django

Question

I'm extending a django auth user model in a Profile model:
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class Profile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
activity = models.IntegerField(default=500)
def _str_(self):
return self
in my views I'm getting the current auth user and I get the associated profile:
#api_view(['GET'])
#permission_classes([IsAuthenticated])
def getUserProfile(request):
profile = Profile.objects.get(user = request.user)
serializer = profileSerializer(profile, many=False)
return Response(serializer.data)
Here is my serializers code:
from rest_framework import serializers
from .models import Profile
class profileSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = Profile
fields = ('first_name', 'activity')
The error I'm getting that Profie object has not a first_name attribute, but when I replace 'first_name' with 'user' I get only the id of the user, so I want to show the first_name as well.
Thank you

Answer 1

The OneToOneField connects your field user in the Profile model to a User object which has a first_name attribute, but in the Profile table that user field is just a number that says which User object it is. To access the first name, you can do this:
from rest_framework import serializers
from .models import Profile
class profileSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = Profile
fields = '__all__'
Then in your template you could display the first_name like this, assuming you pass person to it where person is an instance of the Profile model:
{{ person.user.first_name }}
I also think it would be less confusing to use another name for the field, rather then user. Call it person maybe, like:
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class Profile(models.Model):
person = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
activity = models.IntegerField(default=500)
def _str_(self):
return self

Answer 2

Try this:
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class profileSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
first_name = serializers.CharField(max_length=200, read_only=True)
class Meta:
model = Profile
fields = ('user', 'first_name', 'activity')
def get_first_name(self, obj):
return User.objects.filter(id=obj.user.id).first().values_list('first_name', flat=True).last()

Answer 3

I was able to show the fields I wanted using Django depth in the serializer
from rest_framework import serializers
from .models import Profile
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ('first_name', 'last_name')
class profileSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
user = UserSerializer()
class Meta:
model = Profile
fields = ('activity','user')
depth=1