How to display many fields' values with ForeignKey relationship? - django

Question

Looking for solution of this problem I encountered some similar threads, but referring to older versions of Django/DRF and thus not working in my case.
There are these two models:
class CsdModel(models.Model):
model_id = models.CharField("Item ID", max_length=8, primary_key=True)
name = models.CharField("Item Name", max_length=40)
active = models.BooleanField(default=True)
def __str__(self):
return self.model_id
class CsdListing(models.Model):
model_id = models.ForeignKey(CsdModel, on_delete=models.CASCADE, default=0, related_name='m_id')
name = models.ForeignKey(CsdModel, on_delete=models.CASCADE, default=0, related_name='m_name')
(...)
EDIT: Serializers are defined this way:
class CsdModelSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
model_id = serializers.RegexField(regex='^\w{2}\d{3}$', allow_blank=False)
name = serializers.CharField(min_length=6, max_length=50, allow_blank=False)
class Meta:
model = CsdModel
fields = '__all__'
class CsdListingSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
session_id = serializers.RegexField(regex='^s\d{2}$', allow_blank=False)
def validate_session_id(self, value):
(...)
class Meta:
model = CsdListing
fields = '__all__'
What I'd like to see, is model_id and name from CsdModel displayed inside a form created based on CsdListing model. But instead, the ID is duplicated:
How should I rebuild the model(s) to have both ID and name displayed in the form?

Answer 1

You should have only one foreign key. But the listing serializer should then reference the model as a nested serializer.
class CsdListing(models.Model):
model = models.ForeignKey(CsdModel, on_delete=models.CASCADE, default=0, related_name='listing')
class CsdListingSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
model = CsdModelSerializer()
session_id = serializers.RegexField(regex='^s\d{2}$', allow_blank=False)