Divide Serializer Django rest framework

Question

I have a Serializer receiving:

{
    "suggestions": [
      {
       "description": "Portugal - Porto",       
       "integration_data": {
        .......
         }
      },
     {
      "description": "Portugal - Porto",
      "another_data":{
       .......
      }
     }]
}

How can I make my Serializer do something like: if integration_data is not Null go to function X where I will work with all logic of the serializer if another_data is not Null go to function Y where I will work with all logic of the serializer.

At the moment my serializer is written as:

class SuggestionSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    integration_data = serializers.DictField(write_only=True, allow_null=True, required=False)
    sponsor_data = serializers.DictField(write_only=True, allow_null=True, required=False)

Thanks

Answer 1

Sounds like you want to use a serializer method field . Something like

class SuggestionSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    integration_data = = serializers.SerializerMethodField()
    ...
    def get_integration_data(self, obj):
        # Insert logic for generating value of this field here
        ...
        return value

This allows you to arbitrarily generate the value of the field based on logic rather than data.