Flask restx api model not showing model data - flask-restx

Question

I have a model as follows:
class Menu(db.Model):
itemId = db.Column(db.Integer,primary_key=True)
name = db.Column(db.String(255),index=True)
price = db.Column(db.Numeric)
description = db.Column(db.String(255),index=True)
image = db.Column(db.LargeBinary)
restaurantId = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('restaurants.id'))
createdOn = db.Column(db.DateTime,server_default=db.func.now())
status = db.Column(db.Integer,server_default="1")
orders = db.relationship('Orders', backref='menu', lazy='dynamic')
def __repr__(self):
return '<Menu of restaurant id {}>'.format(self.restaurantId)
And I have the following api model corresponding to it:
menu_model = api.model('Menu',
{'itemId':fields.Integer(),
'name':fields.String(),
'price':fields.Float(),
'description':fields.String(),
'restaurantId':fields.Integer(),
'createdOn:':fields.DateTime(),
'status':fields.Integer()})
The problem is that even though the createdOn values are correctly generated on DB side, the response shows the createdOn field as null. What could be the reason?
"menu":
{
"itemId": 1,
"name": "Menu item",
"price": 30.0,
"description": "Menu item description",
"restaurantId": 1,
"createdOn:": null,
"status": 1
}

Answer 1

this will accept the desired output. The first parameter is a label, not part of the json
menus = api.model(
"menu_item",
{
'itemId':fields.Integer(),
'name':fields.String(),
'price':fields.Float(),
'description':fields.String(),
'restaurantId':fields.Integer(),
'createdOn:':fields.DateTime(),
'status':fields.Integer()
},
)
menu_model = api.model(
"Menu",
{
"menu": Nested(menus),
},
)