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SJ19
SJ19

Reputation: 2123

Django REST: Serializer create function request.user not found

The create function is giving me the following error:

AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'user'

Looks like request.user does not exist in this serializer. Is there a way to retrieve the user id in serializer? Or is this not possible?

class EmployeeQuestionSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

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

    def create(self, request):
        serializer = EmployeeQuestionSerializer(employee=request.user.pk)
        if serializer.is_valid():
            return serializer.save();

    def update(self, instance, validated_data):
        instance.attempted = validated_data.get('attempted')
        instance.passed = validated_data.get('passed')
        instance.save()
        return instance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 875

Answers (1)

SST
SST

Reputation: 332

You can to pass the request object from views.py to this serializer

serializer = EmployeeQuestionSerializer(queryset, context={'request':request})

then in serializers.py you can access that with self inside create: user=self.context['request'].user

Upvotes: 5

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