DRF SearchFilter in ListAPIViews

Question

I'm working on Django==3.2.7, djangorestframework==3.12.4 and django-filter==21.1. and React for the frontend

What I would like to do:

1. Return Job Offer objects that contains words from search (Search fields job_title and localistation)
2. Remove useless words like ('in', 'a', 'an', 'the', 'at', 'for', 'to') in search

here an example of the url:

{{URL}}/api/v1/job-offers/jobs/?search=Chef in Texas
allowed_methods = ['GET']

What I've done so far in my (ListAPIView):

class JobOfferListAPIView(generics.ListAPIView):
    permission_classes = [permissions.IsAuthenticated]
    queryset = JobOffer.objects.all()
    serializer_class = JobOfferSerializer
    filter_backends = [filters.SearchFilter, filters.OrderingFilter, DjangoFilterBackend]

    search_fields = ['job_title', 'localisation']
    ordering_fields = ['user', 'is_active']
    filterset_fields = ['user', 'is_active', 'job_title', 'type_of_job', 'start_date', 'salary', 'localisation']

    def get_queryset(self, *args, **kwargs):
        exclude_words = ['in', 'a', 'an', 'the', 'at', 'for', 'to']
        keywords = self.request.GET.get('search').split(' ')
        keywords = [keyword for keyword in keywords if keyword not in exclude_words]
        if keywords:
            for keyword in keywords:
                queryset = queryset.filter(
                    Q(job_title__icontains=keyword) | Q(localisation__icontains=keyword)
                )
            print(queryset)
        return queryset

Problème: When i'm printing queryset i can see filtered Job Offers in terminal but not return in Postman.

Terminal Screen:

Postman Screen

Answer 1

Please share your serializer code.

Meanwhile to test whether the queryset is getting parsed in serializer or not, use raise Exception(queryset) or if this is correct then raise Exception(serializer.data)