How does one convert a django Model object to a dict with all of its fields? All ideally includes foreign keys and fields with editable=False.
Let me elaborate. Let’s say I have a django model like the following:
from django.db import models
class OtherModel(models.Model): pass
class SomeModel(models.Model):
normal_value = models.IntegerField()
readonly_value = models.IntegerField(editable=False)
auto_now_add = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
foreign_key = models.ForeignKey(OtherModel, related_name="ref1")
many_to_many = models.ManyToManyField(OtherModel, related_name="ref2")
In the terminal, I have done the following:
other_model = OtherModel()
other_model.save()
instance = SomeModel()
instance.normal_value = 1
instance.readonly_value = 2
instance.foreign_key = other_model
instance.save()
instance.many_to_many.add(other_model)
instance.save()
I want to convert this to the following dictionary:
{'auto_now_add': datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 16, 21, 34, 14, 926738, tzinfo=<UTC>),
'foreign_key': 1,
'id': 1,
'many_to_many': [1],
'normal_value': 1,
'readonly_value': 2}
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