How to get dictionary format in JSON response rather than List of dictionaries. Right now am getting response like list of dictionaries and I want to get response without list.

#Response I get for example

[
    {
        "id": 40,
        "full_name": "Don Ser 1",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "phone": 12345,
        "address_line_1": "sdsdsdsd",
        "address_line_2": "dsdsdsd",
   
    },
    {
        "id": 41,
        "full_name": "Don Ser 2",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "phone": 121356456,
        "address_line_1": "sdsdsdsd",
        "address_line_2": "dsdsdsd",
    
    }
]

#Response I Like to get is without List.

[
    {
        "id": 40,
        "full_name": "Don Ser 1",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "phone": 12345,
        "address_line_1": "sdsdsdsd",
        "address_line_2": "dsdsdsd",
     
    },
    {
        "id": 41,
        "full_name": "Don Ser 2",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "phone": 121356456,
        "address_line_1": "sdsdsdsd",
        "address_line_2": "dsdsdsd",
  
    }
}

How do I achieve this? Additionally I like to know why it returned it in List rather than dictionary?

CodePudding user response：

If you are returning your response in DRF with serializer.data the simplest way to achieve that is:

return Response(serializer.data[0], status=status.HTTP_200_OK)

If you want to include the whole dictionary in another dictionary you'd have to give it a key so it would something like this:

return Response({"results":serializer.data[0]}, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)

Otherwise if you are using it on a simple item you can just specify it the way you want i.e. :

serializer = Serializer(data=request.data)
if serializer.is_valid():
    device = serializer.save()
    return Response({"pk": device.id}, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)

CodePudding user response：

If you want to return a dict you must define a structure, e.g.

{'results': [
 {
        "id": 40,
        "full_name": "Don Ser 1",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "phone": 12345,
        "address_line_1": "sdsdsdsd",
        "address_line_2": "dsdsdsd",
     
    },
    {
        "id": 41,
        "full_name": "Don Ser 2",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "phone": 121356456,
        "address_line_1": "sdsdsdsd",
        "address_line_2": "dsdsdsd",
  
    }
]}

But just return a dict without a key is not possible.