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ademartini
ademartini

Reputation: 1441

Django REST Framework Specify Some Fields Before calling serializer.isValid()

I need to set some fields (that don't come over as JSON in the request. How do I do so with the Django REST framework.

    serializer = GoalSerializer(data=request.DATA)
    serializer.status = 'I' ##IS THIS RIGHT????????????????
    serializer.journal = id

    if serializer.is_valid():
        serializer.save()
        return Response(serializer.data, status=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
    return Response(serializer.errors, status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST)

I do this because status and journal (which is a foreign key field) are required. But always get 400 response. Is this the right way to set those fields?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 391

Answers (1)

Aaron Lelevier
Aaron Lelevier

Reputation: 20838

You want to access: 

serializer.object

That is the object that you are going to be saving to the database when when calling: 

serializer.save()

So if you are setting extra fields on you Model object before saving it to the database, then you would want to do:

serializer.object.status = "I"
serializer.object.journal = id

Upvotes: 1

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