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SJ19
SJ19

Reputation: 2123

Django REST: Issue with POST request, required field

I'm running into an issue with a POST request. The field "employee" is required but I initialize it in the view (I set it to request.user), rather than in the request parameters. Yet I still get the following error:

data:
    employee: ["This field is required."]

View

class EmployeeQuestionView(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    queryset = EmployeeQuestion.objects.all()
    serializer_class = EmployeeQuestionSerializer

    def perform_create(self, serializer):
        serializer.save(employee=self.request.user)

Serializer

class EmployeeQuestionSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = EmployeeQuestion
        fields = (
            'id',
            'employee',
            'question',
            'attempted',
            'passed',
        )

Any ideas why?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 862

Answers (2)

abtinmo
abtinmo

Reputation: 366

use read_only to ignore employee in validation

class EmployeeQuestionSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    employee = serializers.SerializerMethodField(read_only=True)
    class Meta:
        model = EmployeeQuestion
        fields = (
            'id',
            'employee',
            'question',
            'attempted',
            'passed',
        )
    @staticmethod
    def get_employee(obj):
        return obj.employee

Upvotes: 1

Ramsha Bukhari
Ramsha Bukhari

Reputation: 1

I think it can be because you are not passing the request object to the function but trying to access the user through the request object.

Upvotes: 0

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