Django rest Framework sending json to api endpoint within another class-based view

Question

I want to post to an endpoint from within a CBV and retrieve the response (in order to access the id of the created resource). I've had a look at How to programmatically call a Django Rest Framework view within another view? but cannot find how to send field values through with the request object. request.data is immutable, and passing kwargs through doesn't seem to be doing anything:

from app.views import OtherViewSet

class NewViews(APIView):
   def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
       # kwargs value here is {'field1':1, 'field2':2...}
       view_func = OtherViewSet({'post':'create'})
       response = view_func(self.request, *args, **kwargs).data

Although the kwargs contains the field values (set through several url named groups), the response always looks like:

{'field1': ['This field is required'], 'field2':['This field is required...

What am I doing wrong? Thanks all :)

Edit: Once I've got the ID of the created resource, I want to retrieve the resource as rendered by a particular (custom) format (I don't want to return the response object above).

Why not use a specific serializer, that may reuse the serializer from OtherViewSet ??? — Gabriel Muj
– Gabriel Muj, Commented Nov 16, 2017 at 10:52
@GabrielMuj can you give an example here? I'm not sure how this would look - I need to access the data after making a request to the OtherViewSet's create endpoint within this view. — Bud
– Bud, Commented Nov 16, 2017 at 23:51
Can you provide the serializer from OtherViewSet and what data you need in NewView? — Gabriel Muj
– Gabriel Muj, Commented Nov 18, 2017 at 12:51
I could do, but it doesn't seem particularly DRY. I also want to return the result in a particular format so need to render the response via one of our custom renderers. — Bud
– Bud, Commented Nov 19, 2017 at 23:02
I was thinking that maybe you can reuse the serializer from Otherviewset by subclass it. — Gabriel Muj
– Gabriel Muj, Commented Nov 20, 2017 at 7:37

origamic · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-16 22:00:37Z

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views.py

from app.views import OtherViewSet

class NewViews(APIView):
    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        view = OtherViewSet.as_view({'post':'create'})
        response = view(request, *args, **kwargs)
        return response

answered Nov 16, 2017 at 22:00

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Bud Over a year ago

I get: django.http.request.RawPostDataException: You cannot access body after reading from request's data stream. However, I need to access the data from the response, not return it.

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