Usage With Django Rest Framework

To add tags into a ModelTagsManager() using django-tag-fields, the usual Serializer from Django REST Framework cannot be used.

Attempting to save the tags into a list using DRF Serializer will cause an exception.

To enable the acceptance of tags via a REST API call, you need to add the following to the Serializer.

from tag_fields.serializers import (
    TagSerializer,
    TagListSerializerField,
)



class YourSerializer(
    TagSerializer,
    serializers.ModelSerializer,
):

    class Meta:
        model = YourModel
        fields = '__all__'

    tags = TagListSerializerField()

You can now add tags to your model via a REST API call.