I have defined a user profile model, but want to have one api endpoint that saves all of the user data into both models. By that I mean, I am using the user model and I have a userprofile model defined as follows
class UserProfile(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
biography = models.TextField()
when I define a serializer for creating a new user, how do I get it to serialize data into both the user model, and the userProfile model?
You just need to define a serializer for each, and attach one to the other, as follows:
from rest_framework.serializers import ModelSerializer
class UserSerializer(ModelSerializer):
"""
A serializer for ``User``.
"""
class Meta(object):
model = User
class UserProfileSerializer(ModelSerializer):
"""
A serializer for ``UserProfile``.
"""
user = UserSerializer()
class Meta(object):
model = UserProfile
You could then use UserProfileSerializer to update (or perform other actions to) a user profile and its user instance.
