Usage

To use Django REST Framework Read & Write Serializers in a project, you just need to import some of the generic classes and use them to build your own endpoints the same way you do with Django REST Framework generic views, viwsets and mixins. The only difference is that instead of defining only one serializer class for the view, now you can define a read_serializer_class and a write_serializer_class that be used according to the method you are implementing.

Eg.:

from drf_rw_serializers import generics
from .models import MyModel
from .serializers import MyModelReadSerializer, MyModelWriteSerializer


class MyModelListCreateView(generics.ListCreateAPIView):
    queryset = MyModel.objects.all()
    read_serializer_class = MyModelReadSerializer
    write_serializer_class = MyModelWriteSerializer

If you need to dynamically override the serializers you can override the following methods the same way you do with get_serializer_class and get_serializer from Django REST Framework generic classes:

  • get_read_serializer_class

  • get_write_serializer_class

  • get_read_serializer

  • get_write_serializer

The drf_rw_serializers classes implementation doesn’t break any of the features Django REST Framework implements, so you can use the same way you use DRF classes, but with the read and write serializers extra feature.

Eg.:

from drf_rw_serializers import generics
from .models import MyModel
from .serializers import MyModelWriteSerializer


class MyModelListCreateView(generics.ListCreateAPIView):
    queryset = MyModel.objects.all()
    # this still works the way it works with DRF ListCreateAPIView
    serializer_class = MyModelWriteSerializer