FileField representations should return URLs, not paths.

[flisky]

FileField (and the ImageField) only show its name currently, rather than the storage url.

AFAIK, name is the string stored in the db; path is the MEDIA_ROOT + name; url is the MEDIA_URL + name.

Only found the same question on the ML. I think it would be convenient if we made this change.

Any thought on this?

[tomchristie]

Would like to see this, tho it's not behaviour that we can just arbitrarily change for existing users.
I'm also not sure if this should be the default, optional, or link to a snippet/repo implementing this or demonstrating how to achieve this.

[nournia]

I think it is an obvious requirement. When client asks server for object data, apparently wants to use them. So, only working (absolute) url of file or image is useful.

[eftechnologies]

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-rest-framework/qQQEqXX82zo

[fletchowns]

Related discussion, but for ImageField: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-rest-framework/ldRP-y_s6bQ/weRniVgkynkJ

[escaper01]

just pass request to your serializer and you are good to go
serializer = ReviewSerializer(data=data, context={'request': request})