Based on the DRF documentation I have a created a list of email_id stored in my model in the following way Models.py

class UserData(models.Model):emails = models.CharField(max_length=100,blank=False)

In my serializers.py file

class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):emails = serializers.ListField(child = serializers.EmailField())

While posting the data, the drf page shows the data in the expected format, i.e

"emails": ["[email protected]"],

But, if I query the same data using python or any rest client. I get the data in the following format

data = json.load(urllib2.urlopen("http://localhost:8000/blah/id"))
In [46]: d['emails']
Out[46]: 
[u'[',u'u',u"'",u'b',u'a',u'l',u'@',u'b',u'a',u'l',u'.',u'c',u'o',u'm',u"'",u']']

Ideally, it should have been

d['emails'] = ['[email protected]'] 

I am not sure, what exactly is wrong in here. Any suggestions ?

Your model only has one email field. It does not support storing multiple email in the database. What you need is something like this:

class UserEmail(models.Model)user = models.ForeignKey('User', related_name='emails')email = models.EmailField(unique=True)# You can also store some other useful things here...activated = models.BooleanField(default=False)  # For exampleclass User(models.Model):...class EmailSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):class Meta:fields = ['id', 'email']class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):emails = EmailSerializer(many=True)

However, this will result in a slightly different data structure:

[{'someUserField': 'foobar','emails': [{'id': 1, 'email': '[email protected]'},{'id': 2, 'email': '[email protected]'},]
}, {...
}]

If you don't want this data structure, you could create a custom field

Or... if you're using postgresql you should be able to do this:

from django.contrib.postgres.fields import ArrayFieldclass UserData(models.Model):emails = ArrayField(models.EmailField(), blank=True)