Problem in posting Django API it shows "name": [ "This field is required." ]-CodePudding

this is my serializers.py

from rest_framework import serializers from api.models import Movie

class MovieSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    id = serializers.IntegerField(read_only=True)
    name=serializers.CharField()
    description= serializers.CharField()
    viewed = serializers.BooleanField()

    def create(self,validated_data):
        return Movie.objects.create(**validated_data)

this is my models.py

class Movie(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=20)
    description = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    viewed=models.BooleanField(default=True)
    
    def __str__(self):
      return self.name

this is views.py

@api_view(['GET','POST'])
def home(request):

    if request.method == 'GET':
        movies=Movie.objects.all()
        serializer=MovieSerializer(movies,many=True)
        return Response(serializer.data)

    if request.method == 'POST':
        serializer=MovieSerializer(data=request.POST)
        
        if serializer.is_valid():
            serializer.save()
            return Response(serializer.data)
        else:
            return Response(serializer.errors)

this is what my output looks like

{
    "name": [
        "This field is required."
    ],
    "description": [
        "This field is required."
    ]
}

CodePudding user response：

maybe try to change the serializer like that

class MovieSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    id = serializers.IntegerField(read_only=True)
    name=serializers.CharField()
    description= serializers.CharField()
    viewed = serializers.BooleanField()

    def create(self, name, description, viewed):
        return Movie.objects.create(name=name, description=description, viewed=viewed)

CodePudding user response：

As I see from your views.py ,we can see request.POST ,there from request we get data not POST ,POST is API Method.

serializer=MovieSerializer(data=request.POST)

So change that line to this:

serializer=MovieSerializer(data=request.data)

and below you are returning serializer data not POST.

    return Response(serializer.data)