I'm not sure if I understand your first problem, but about the second one, you'll need to specify you want the full resource using.
I'm not sure if I understand your first problem, but about the second one, you'll need to specify you want the full resource using: user = fields. ForeignKey(UserResource, 'user',full=True) otherwise you'll get the resource URI instead of the contents. (Ref) Also just for reference, keep in mind that the requirements state: Django 1.2+ (May work on Django 1.1).
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