Deep JSON Serialization of Django objects

Question

Consider the following Django Model:

class Event(models.Model):

    startDate = models.DateField()
    endDate = models.DateField()

    user = models.ForeignKey(User, null=True)

Later in my view I do this:

django.core.serializers.serialize("json", Event.objects.all())
return HttpResponse(data, mimetype='application/javascript')

And get the following response:

[
  {
    "pk": 1, 
    "model": "myapp.event", 
    "fields": {
      "startDate": "2010-02-02", 
      "endDate": "2010-02-02", 
      "user": 2
    }
  }
]

Is it possible for to get the serializer to 'go deeper' and serialize the User that is referenced by the Event instance so I can access that data in my Javascript code?

It seems as if this is possible using the development version, but I'm using 1.1 FWIW.

Answer 1

This might help you out: http://wadofstuff.blogspot.com/2009/02/django-full-serializers-part-i.html