How to update user data using django and rest framework?

Question

When trying to update a user the following message appears: "A user with this username already exists"

I have a standard Django User model and I have another profile template that extends.

How do I update this data, including the user profile.

Thank you.

Model

class Profile(User):
    nome_empresa = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    cnpj = models.CharField(max_length=15)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.nome_empresa

Serializer

class ProfileSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = Profile
        fields = ('nome_empresa', 'cnpj')


class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    profile = ProfileSerializer()
    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('username', 'email', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'profile')

View

class usuario(APIView):


    def patch(self, request, format=None):

        user = UserSerializer(data=request.data)

        if user.is_valid():
            user.update(instance=request.user)
            return Response(HTTP_200_OK)

        return Response(user.errors)

arjunattam · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-11 03:34:19Z

6

django-rest-framework does not update nested serializers by default. To update the profile object, you need to override the serializer's update method.

class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    profile = ProfileSerializer()

    def update(self, instance, validated_data):
        """Override update method because we need to update
        nested serializer for profile
        """
        if validated_data.get('profile'):
            profile_data = validated_data.get('profile')
            profile_serializer = ProfileSerializer(data=profile_data)

            if profile_serializer.is_valid():
                profile = profile_serializer.update(instance=instance.profile)
                validated_data['profile'] = profile

        return super(UserSerializer, self).update(instance, validated_data)

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('username', 'email', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'profile')

edited May 11, 2020 at 3:34

answered Sep 5, 2017 at 18:49

arjunattam

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3 Comments

user8060120 Over a year ago

what did you mean place_data is it typo?

marcelo.delta Over a year ago

An error has occurred: TypeError: update() missing 1 required positional argument: 'validated_data'

marcelo.delta Over a year ago

I was able to include the validate_data correctly, but the return is successful, nothing else is being saved in the database.

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