Had implemented a basic authentication system using function based views in django.
Trying to upgrade it to class based views.
Creating a UserProfile by inheriting from a django User model.
Need to serialize UserProfile and return to client side
User model :
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
UserProfile model :
class UserProfile(models.Model):
id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
user = models.OneToOneField(User)
profile_picture = models.ImageField(upload_to='documents', blank=True)
def __str__(self):
return self.user.username
UserSerializer:
class UserSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ('username','password', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email',)
write_only_fields = ('password',)
read_only_fields = ('is_staff', 'is_superuser', 'is_active', 'date_joined',)
def restore_object(self, attrs, instance=None):
user = super(UserSerializer, self).restore_object(attrs, instance)
user.set_password(attrs['password'])
return user
UserProfileSerializer:
class UserProfileSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
user = UserSerializer()
class Meta:
model = UserProfile
fields = ('id','user','profile_picture',)
views.py:
class AuthView(APIView):
authentication_classes = (BasicAuthentication,)
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
login(request, request.user)
content={ 'user':UserProfileSerializer(request.user).data,'token':csrf.get_token(request)}
return Response(content)
UserProfileSerializer(request.user).data in views.py is not working.
but instead if i use:
UserSerializer(request.user).data, it gives me result(as expected) :
{'first_name': '', 'username': 'admin', 'email': '[email protected]', 'last_name': '', 'password': 'pbkdf2_'}
But i also want additional attributes to the user also serialized like profile_picture, hence something like
UserProfileSerializer(request.user).data
should work for me.
Questions:
Is it possible to serialize a model containing
FileField?How to serialize a nested object and return its data ?
Kinda beginner here.
