python - Django Rest-Framework nested serializer order

Question

Is there a way to order a nested serializer _set, for example order by pk or time-stamp.

So basically order song_set shown in the json data below from the most recent to the latest object created, in this case by order_by('-timestamp') or order_by('-pk').

Json data

{
    "pk": 151,
    "album_name": "Name",
    "song_set": [
         {
           pk: 3,
           timestamp: '5 seconds'
         },
         {
           pk: 2,
           timestamp: '10 seconds'
         },
         {
           pk: 1,
           timestamp: '15 seconds'
         }
    ]
}

Model

class Album(models.Model):
    album_name     = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)


class Song(models.Model):
    album          = models.ForeignKey('album.Album', default=1)
    timestamp      = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, auto_now=False)

Serializer

class SongListSerializer(HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Song
        fields = [
            'pk',
            'timestamp'
        ]

class AlbumSerializer(HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    song_set = SongListSerializer(many=True, read_only=True)
    class Meta:
        model = Album
        fields = [
            'pk',
            'timestamp',
            'song_set'
        ]

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48247490/django-rest-framework-nested-serializer-order

Answer 1

You can use SerializerMethodField and write custom method for this.

class AlbumSerializer(HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    song_set = serializers.SerializerMethodField()
    class Meta:
        model = Album
        fields = [
            'pk',
            'timestamp',
            'song_set'
        ]

    def get_song_set(self, instance):
        songs = instance.song_set.all().order_by('-timestamp')
        return SongListSerializer(songs, many=True).data