Tutorial on Django Models

• You can define a field such as text or pub_date.

class Post(models.Model):
    text = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    pub_date = models.DateTimeField('Publication Date', auto_now=True)

    def get_readable_date(self):
        return self.pub_date.strftime("%B %d, %Y")

• you can create a method to use in your serializer as source such as get_readable_date() as above. By setting read only to True, user is not allowed to edit it. Use this as source in serializer:

class PostSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    pub_date = serializers.CharField(source = 'get_readable_date', read_only = True)
    class Meta:
        model = Post
        fields = ["pub_date"]