Datetimefield is serialized to str

[martinwk]

When I serialize this model

    site            = models.ForeignKey(Site, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    name         = models.CharField(max_length=100, )
    start_date_time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=False, auto_now_add=False, verbose_name='Date and time at which the well is deployed.')

with this serializer

class FileSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Well
        fields = ('id', 'name', 'site', )

The resulting dataframe has a column start_date_time but this is a string rather than a datetime object. I work around this by using transform_dataframe and convert the column using pandas.to_datetime function. Is this the way to go or am I missing someting?

[sheppard]

You can turn off the string serialization by adding the following to your serializer:

class FileSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    start_date_time = serializers.DateTimeField(format=None)

I updated the README with more information.