Custom User Authentication with Simple JWT in Django RESTful/

...

/

Listing and Retrieving Users

Listing and Retrieving Users

Learn how to list and retrieve the registered users.

We'll cover the following...

User serializer

When we want to fetch user objects from the database, this serializer class takes care of the serialization of those user objects. Let’s create the user serializer class in serializers.py, as shown below.

Python 3.8
# .. other serializers
class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ["id","email","is_active","is_staff"]

In the code above:

  • The UserSerializer class inherits from ModelSerializer so it can map the model fields into this serializer.
  • In the Meta class, the User
...