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Manish Shah
Manish Shah

Reputation: 401

How to dynamically fill a hiddenfield in django-rest-frameowork?

I have two model's as:-

Model 1 Location:

Model 2 FloorPlan:

I am trying to create an endpoint for performing CRUD operation on the FloorPlan Model

Here is my serializer & view function:-

serializers.py

class FloorPlanSerializer(ModelSerialzer):
    class Meta:
        model = FloorPlan
        fields = '__all__'

views.py

class FloorPlanListView(ListCreateAPIView):
    queryset = FloorPlan.objects.all()
    serializer_class = FloorPlanSerializer

Now the problem I am facing is I want to hide the organization field in the response, and would like to fill its value, from it's location instance(foreignKey) with POST or PUT/PATCH requests.

Can anyone suggest me a way to achieve this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 85

Answers (1)

Jimmar
Jimmar

Reputation: 4459

The way I'd do it is have 2 serializers

class FloorPlanSerializerReader(ModelSerialzer):
    class Meta:
        model = FloorPlan
        exclude = ('location', )

class FloorPlanSerializerWriter(ModelSerialzer):
    class Meta:
        model = FloorPlan
        exclude = '__all__'

and then in your views override get_serializer_class to have different ones supplies depending on the method

class FloorPlanListView(ListCreateAPIView):
    queryset = FloorPlan.objects.all()

    get_serializer_class(self, *args, **kwargs):
        if self.request.method == 'GET':
            return FloorPlanSerializerReader
        elif self.request.method in ['POST', 'PUT', 'PATCH']:
            return FloorPlanSerializerWriter
        else:
            pass # you should probably throw and error here or handle it however you want

Upvotes: 0

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