Usage With Django Rest Framework¶
Because the tags in django-taggit need to be added into a TaggableManager() we cannot use the usual Serializer that we get from Django REST Framework. Because this is trying to save the tags into a list, which will throw an exception.
To accept tags through a REST API call we need to add the following to our Serializer:
from taggit.serializers import (TagListSerializerField,
TaggitSerializer)
class YourSerializer(TaggitSerializer, serializers.ModelSerializer):
tags = TagListSerializerField()
class Meta:
model = YourModel
fields = '__all__'
And you’re done, so now you can add tags to your model.