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Gaston C. Hillar
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Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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Using model serializers to eliminate duplicate code


The GameSerializer class declares many attributes with the same names that we used in the Game model and repeats information, such as the types and the max_length values. The GameSerializer class is a subclass of rest_framework.serializers.Serializer, it declares attributes that we manually mapped to the appropriate types and overrides the create and update methods.

Now, we will create a new version of the GameSerializer class that will inherit from the rest_framework.serializers.ModelSerializer class. The ModelSerializer class automatically populates both set of default fields and a set of default validators. In addition, the class provides default implementations for the create and update methods.

Tip

In case you have any experience with Django Web Framework, you will notice that the Serializer and ModelSerializer classes are similar to the Form and ModelForm classes.

Now, go to the gamesapi/games folder and open the serializers.py file....

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Gaston C. Hillar is Italian and has been working with computers since he was 8 years old. Gaston has a Bachelor's degree in computer science (graduated with honors) and an MBA. Currently, Gaston is an independent IT consultant and a freelance author who is always looking for new adventures anywhere in the world. He was a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobb's, and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times. He has written many articles about Java for Oracle Java Magazine. Gaston was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
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