@@ -537,6 +537,14 @@ If you explicitly specify a relational field pointing to a
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@@ -537,6 +537,14 @@ If you explicitly specify a relational field pointing to a
``ManyToManyField`` with a through model, be sure to set ``read_only``
``ManyToManyField`` with a through model, be sure to set ``read_only``
to ``True``.
to ``True``.
## The `display_value` method
The `__str__` (`__unicode__` on Python 2) method of the model will be called to generate string representations of the objects used to populate the `choices` property. To provide customized representations, override `display_value` of a `RelatedField` subclass. This method will receive a model object, and should return a string suitable for representing it. For example:
class TrackPrimaryKeyRelatedField(serializers.PrimaryKeyRelatedField):