<h2id="creating-a-serializer-class">Creating a Serializer class</h2>
<p>The first thing we need to get started on our Web API is to provide a way of serializing and deserializing the snippet instances into representations such as <code>json</code>. We can do this by declaring serializers that work very similar to Django's forms. Create a file in the <code>snippets</code> directory named <code>serializers.py</code> and add the following.</p>