#4656: Allow In-depth serialization by specifying depth to follow relationship
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Reporter: jay.m.mar...@gmail.com | Owner: nobody
Status: new | Milestone:
Component: Serialization | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords: feature
Stage: Design decision needed | Has_patch: 0
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Comment (by russellm):
@orokusaki My opening comment was a light-hearted (hence the smiley)
attempt to draw attention to the fact that your proposal is very LISPy,
but not very Pythonic. Yes, tuples and lists are Python data structures -
that doesn't mean that nesting them N deep is a good idea. Off the top of
my head, the only place we use nested 2-tuples is in the choices list on
forms (to provide optgroups) and in specifying arguments to template
loaders - and in both of those cases, the nesting is limited to depth 2. I
can't think of any examples of arbitrarily nested tuples in Django.
The reason I mentioned the excludes/fields issue is that I'm not
especially inclined to start applying piecemeal fixes to serialization
when there is a much bigger problem lurking - that of customization. Any
good solution for customizable serialization will necessitate the ability
to have fine grained control over recursion, the fields that are to be
included, and the format in which they will be displayed. What you've
proposed will fix one small part of a larger problem, and may do so in a
way that constrains our ability to implement a truly generic solution.
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