Django REST Swagger VS drf-flex-fields

Common frameworks for building APIs in Python are the Django Rest Framework and Flask-RESTPLUS. Django developers can add the django-rest-swagger module via pip, whereas Flask-RESTPLUS has Swagger support built in. Both are very powerful in terms of automation, so they do not require a lot of configuration.

Examples include Swagger-Core, SpringFox, NSwag / Swashbuckle, Swagger-express / HAPI-Swagger, Django-REST-Swagger / Flask-RESTplus, etc.

I've been going off of the documentation on the django-rest-swagger github page, more specifically the part called "How it works". It shows that you can define your own parameters for your rest api, and have those parameters show up in your swagger doc page.

I have a few URLs that I want to exclude from my REST API documentation. I'm using Django REST Swagger and the only documentation I can find (https://github.com/marcgibbons/django-rest-swagger) doesn't really tell me much. There is the "exclude_namespaces" part of SWAGGER_SETTINGS in settings.py, but there is no real explanation or example of how to use this.

You could use a HyperLinked model serializer (also check this) and add expandable fields so with one call you can choose if you want the tags field to be detailed (expanded) or not. E.g. /product//?expand=tags

You can use drf-flex-fields or copy its implementation. It has exactly what you need, ctrl + f "?fields=".

This library helps me reuse serializers a lot more https://github.com/rsinger86/drf-flex-fields