Django rest framework not reading JSON right

Question

So I am using a basic API view as such:

@api_view(['GET'])
def load_info(request,user_id):
    user = User.objects.get(pk=user_id)
    profile = user.profile
    serialized = ProfileSerializerInfo(profile,data=request.DATA)
    print serialized.data
    if serialized.is_valid():
        return Response(serialized)
    else:
        return Response(serialized.errors)

now the print serialized.data returns the full amount of information with a user, yet the JSON returned is the serialized.errors, which says:

{
    "user": [
        "This field is required."
    ]
}

why is Django rest framework not noticing the user field in the JSON?

Note

this is what serialized.data looks like:

{'user': {u'id': 22, ...}, 'follower_count':3452,...}

I also tried passing serialized.data to Response, but that did not work either.

by request, here is the serializer:

class ProfileSerializerInfo(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    user = UserSerializer()

    class Meta:
        model = Profile

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:29:08Z

4

Could you post the definition of ProfileSerializerInfo and are you using nested serializers?

You could try user = UserSerializer(many=False, required=False) on ProfileSerializerInfo

Also found this from here:

You need to use partial=True to update a row with partial data:

serializer = UserSerializer(user, data=request.DATA, partial=True)

From docs:

By default, serializers must be passed values for all required fields or they will throw validation errors. You can use the partial argument in order to allow partial updates.

edited May 23, 2017 at 10:29

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Ryan Saxe Over a year ago

Thanks, yes I just needed to add partial=True as a param when I call the profile serializer

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