FileField returns relative url (instead of absolute) inside serialized data returned by SerializerMethodField

[ZeroAurora]

Example code: https://github.com/ZeroAurora/drf-nested-file-serializaion-issue
When returning a serializer's data from a SerializerMethodField, the FileField of the serializer returns a relative url . However I guess it should be an absolute one, because when the model containing the file is directly serialized, the returning data contains an absolute url.
The problem above is demonstrated in the README.
Is it expected or a bug?

[browniebroke]

Have you tried to set the MEDIA_URL setting from Django to your base URL?

[browniebroke]

So I added some tests to reproduce the problem and defined the setting to fix it: ZeroAurora/drf-nested-file-serializaion-issue#1

While it fixes the problem, I agree that it's strange that the MediaFileSerializer behaves differently if the InnerSerializer is nested inside another one...

[ZeroAurora]

So I added some tests to reproduce the problem and defined the setting to fix it: ZeroAurora/drf-nested-file-serializaion-issue#1

While it fixes the problem, I agree that it's strange that the MediaFileSerializer behaves differently if the InnerSerializer is nested inside another one...

Did a quick test in workspace and that does fix the problem
I discovered this problem while doing my school assignments, and in that project MEDIA_URL was defined (as a relative path) but still produced the same problem.

[browniebroke]

in that project MEDIA_URL was defined (as a relative path) but still produced the same problem.

So to be clear, when you said you had "the same problem", do you mean that you had a mix of absolute and relative URLs or were all URLs relative?

[ZeroAurora]

So to be clear, when you said you had "the same problem", do you mean that you had a mix of absolute and relative URLs or were all URLs relative?

Yes the first one, similar to the example I provided