How to serialize in Django Rest Framework with custom fields?

Question

Let's say my model is:

class Contact(models.Model):
    email = models.CharField(max_length=50)

I want to have a serializer that receives multiple fields and then combine them to create an email. For example:

class ContactSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    first = serializers.CharField()
    second = serializers.CharField()
    third = serializers.CharField()

It would convert {"first": "user", "second": "example", "third": "org"} to a new Contact object with the email '[email protected]'.

What should I do?

neverwalkaloner · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-19 15:37:28Z

2

You can override serializer's create method:

class ContactSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    first = serializers.CharField()
    second = serializers.CharField()
    third = serializers.CharField()

    def create(self, validated_data):
        email = '{0}@{1}.{2}'.format(validated_data['first'], validated_data['second'], validated_data['third'])
        instance = Contact.objects.create(email=email)
        return instance

answered Feb 19, 2018 at 15:37

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