How to add data to tastypie resources in regular django views

As is often the case, writing this up helped me find a temporary solution. Maybe someone will have some input on how to make this better.

I am using this to prepare a queryset for serialization:

def serialize_queryset(resource_class, queryset):    # hand me a queryset, i give you dehydrated resources    resource = resource_class()    dd = {}    # make meta    dd['meta'] = {}    dd['meta']['limit'] = 1000    dd['meta']['next'] = None    dd['meta']['offset'] = 0    dd['meta']['previous'] = None    dd['meta']['total_count'] = len(queryset)    # objects    dd['objects'] = []    for obj in queryset:        bundle = resource.build_bundle(obj=obj)        dehydrated_obj = resource.full_dehydrate(bundle)        dd['objects'].append(dehydrated_obj)    # return dict    return dd

And I use the Serializer from tastypie.serializer. and in using it in a sample view is goes something like:

from tastypie.serializer import Serializerserializer = Serializer()def my_view(request):    #... do some other view stuff ...    # prepare a queryset for serialization    queryset = MyModel.objects.filter(is_cool=True)    data = serialize_queryset(MyModel, queryset)    # add in custom stuff, determined earlier in the view somewhere    data['success'] = success    data['message'] = message    data['error'] = error    # serialize and return response    data = serializer.serialize(data)    return HttpResponse(data, mimetype='application/json')

This seems to work. Maybe you see something bad about this method, or a way to improve it?