Would be great to be able to nest compound fields

[erikcw]

It would be very useful to be able to nest compound fields, such as a DictField inside of a ListField.

# [{"name": Joe, "username": joey, id: 12,}, {"name": "Sally", "username": "codehero", id: 2}]

my_field = ListField(DictField())

In my testing, this didn't seem to currently be possible. Is there a reason why it isn't supported?

[JuanjoRoig]

Hi, I'm looking at the same behavior too. Is it possible?

[erikcw]

In my case what I ended up doing was nesting serializers. Something like this.

class MyDictSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    """
    This serializer represents my dictionary data
    """
    name = serializers.CharField()
    username = serializers.CharField()
    id = serializers.IntegerField()

class MyModel(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    my_field = MyDictSerializer(many=True)
    #...etc

The nice thing about this approach is that validators can be attached to MyDictSerializer. Seems to work pretty well.

[estebistec]

Just letting you know I'm not ignoring this. I plan to look at this over this weekend and see what we should do for this. At a glance at seems reasonable to me.

[estebistec]

@erikcw How important is it for you that this be fixed for compatibility with rest-framework 2.X, as opposed to when I upgrade this for rest-framework 3.0 (hopefully soon)?

[estebistec]

Please see #27