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Python Django REST Framework RESTful Django Model Serializers

Jadav Bheda
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Jadav Bheda
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Jadav Bheda
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Allow all fields in GET request but restrict POST to just one filed.

Lets understand it by example.

Say, I want to create FileUploader API. Where it will be storing fields like id, file_path, file_name, size, owner etc in database. See sample model below:

class FileUploader(models.Model): file = models.FileField() name = models.CharField(max_length=100) #name is filename without extension version = models.IntegerField(default=0) upload_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True, db_index=True) owner = models.ForeignKey('auth.User', related_name='uploaded_files') size = models.IntegerField(default=0)

Now, For APIs this is what I want:

1. GET:

When I fire the GET endpoint, I want all above fields for every uploaded file.

2. POST:

But for user to create/upload file, why she has to worry about passing all these fields. She can just upload the file and then, I suppose, serializer can get rest of the fields from uploaded FILE.

Searilizer: I created below serializer to serve my purpose. But not sure if its the right way to implement it.

class FileUploaderSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): #overwrite = serializers.BooleanField() class Meta: model = FileUploader fields = ('file','name','version','upload_date', 'size') read_only_fields = ('name','version','owner','upload_date', 'size')

def create(self, validated_data):
    return LayerFile.objects.create(**validated_data)

Also, another question is I want user to provide extra parameter called 'overwrite' (if file already exist on server).

I am not sure how to access that in serializer.