Serializing the django-notifications Model

I’m trying to serialize the model included in django-notifications package with DRF (for a RESTFUL API)

But i’m facing a problem. When I acces the model Notification inside notifications\models.py and try to make a ModelSerializer of it, then raise this error:

NotificationQuerySet' object has no attribute 'recipient'.

My ModelSerializer:

class NotificationSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    class Meta:
        model = Notification
        fields = ('description', 'recipient',)

Any tip on this? I don’t understand why is trying to accesing NotificationQuerySet instead of Notification model…

Thanks in andvance.

[mwcbrent]

I know this is a really old question but I solved this recently and wanted to share my solution. My solution took advantage of the generic foreign key support in django rest framework. See below:

class GenericNotificationRelatedField(serializers.RelatedField):

    def to_representation(self, value):
        if isinstance(value, Foo):
            serializer = FooSerializer(value)
        if isinstance(value, Bar):
            serializer = BarSerializer(value)

        return serializer.data


class NotificationSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    recipient = PublicUserSerializer(User, read_only=True)
    unread = serializers.BooleanField(read_only=True)
    target = GenericNotificationRelatedField(read_only=True)

See here - http://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/relations/#generic-relationships

In this example the target object can be of type Foo or Bar and the appropriate serializer will be used.

[AlvaroLQueiroz]

Added the exemple in README file. Thanks @DaWy .