Hide serializer field in inline serializer

Hey, I’m trying to use part of serializer as a field. I know of the existence of extend_schema_serializer and the exclude_fields options but I cannot manage to use it as a field of a different serializer.

Example:

responses=extend_schema_serializer(many=False)(
    inline_serializer(
        name="getHeartBeatsResponse",
        fields={
            "count": serializers.IntegerField(),
            "page_count": serializers.IntegerField(),
            "results": serializers.ListField(child=DeviceHeartbeatSerializer()),       # Here I want a exclude a field from DeviceHeartbeatSerializer
        },
    )
),

I tried

responses=extend_schema_serializer(many=False)(
    inline_serializer(
        name="getHeartBeatsResponse",
        fields={
            "count": serializers.IntegerField(),
            "page_count": serializers.IntegerField(),
            "results": serializers.ListField(
                child=extend_schema_serializer(exclude_fields="device")(
                    DeviceHeartbeatSerializer()
                )
            ),
        },
    )
),

but it does not seem to work. Does this feature simply not exist or I am I using the library in a wrong way?

Pardon me, if the answer is simply but I could not find it in the docs.

[t-pohl]

Okay, I can happily live with the workaround as long as I know about the limitation. Thank you very much for clarifying and helping me out!

[tfranzel]

this is the way.

i’m afraid this is a conceptual limitation. we would have 2 “different” serializer and only one name for it. unless we would attach ugly suffixes like DeviceHeartbeat2 this cannot be resolved.