CustomJSONRenderer

renderers.py

class CustomJSONRenderer(rest_framework_json_api.renderers.JSONRenderer):
    """
    Replace references to primary key with `uuid` field value.
    """
    @classmethod
    def extract_attributes(cls, fields, resource):
        obj = super(CustomJSONRenderer, cls).extract_attributes(fields, resource)
        obj.pop('uuid')
        return obj

    @classmethod
    def build_json_resource_obj(cls, fields, resource, resource_instance, *args, **kwargs):
        obj = super(CustomJSONRenderer, cls).build_json_resource_obj(fields, resource, resource_instance, *args, **kwargs)
        obj['id'] = str(resource_instance.uuid)
        return obj