Django - serialize to JSON, how to serialize a FK User object - django

Question

I'm on a page which sends a request to server side for a list of comments of current topic.
like this
localhost:8000/getComments/567 , while 567 is the topic id.
then, in my django view, like this:
def getProjectComments(request, pId):
format = 'json'
mimetype = 'application/javascript' #'application/xml' for 'xml' format
comments = PrjComment.objects.filter(prj=pId)
data = serializers.serialize(format, comments)
return HttpResponse(data,mimetype)
Now , the question is ,
when I try to use jQuery.parseJSON(data) at the browser side.
[
{
"pk": 10,
"model": "app.prjcomment",
"fields":
{
"status": 1,
"time_Commented": "2011-12-11 17:23:56",
"prj": 1,
"content": "my comment 1",
"user": 25
}
},
{
"pk": 9,
"model": "app.prjcomment",
"fields": {
"status": 1,
"time_Commented": "2011-12-11 17:23:51",
"prj": 1,
"content": "comment \u4e00\u4e2a",
"user": 33
}
} ..
I need to use some detail information of user object. (user is a Foreign Key in model PrjComment)
such as user.first_name to display on the comment list.
but here it is only an id for user.("user": 33)
How can I do that? Anyone who can kind help?
Thank you very much
the User is the Django auth_user.

Answer 1

The easy solution would be to specify the values you need:
comments = PrjComment.objects.filter(prj=pId) \
.values('status','time_commented','prj','content','user__id',
'user__username','user__first_name')
Update:
To access your userprofile information use the table name as defined in your AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE setting. In my case the table is called userprofile, and I'd access the data like this:
values('user__userprofile__moreinfo')
where moreinfo is the field you're interested in