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4656	Allow In-depth serialization by specifying depth to follow relationship	jay.m.martin@…	nobody	"It would be nice to be able to specify whether to traverse relationships when calling serialize.

For example, say you had 2 models defined as:
{{{
class Reporter(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
    last_name = models.CharField(maxlength=30)
    email = models.EmailField()

class Article(models.Model):
    headline = models.CharField(maxlength=100)
    pub_date = models.DateField()
    reporter = models.ForeignKey(Reporter)
}}}

If you serialize a queryset from the Article model, the result will only contain the primary keys of the related Reporter models. I think an additional argument specifying the maximum depth to traverse relationships (similar to select_related). So if you pass 1 as the depth in the above example, the result will contain the complete deserialization of the related Reporter objects as well. "	New feature	closed	Core (Serialization)		Normal	wontfix	feature	mattimustang@… datavortex@… django@… tosters@… Tom Christie kmike84@… hv@…	Accepted	0	0	0	1	0	0